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• Comfort Meets Surprise in a Charming Forest Home: Sixteen Doors House
• Unique Building Structure Alternating Between Living And Parking [Video]
• Enjoying A Luxurious Multisensorial Experience With The Loop Shower
• Ambitious Urban Regeneration Project Leading With New Multimedia Center
• IKEA Launches Interactive Augmented-Reality Catalog For 2013

Comfort Meets Surprise in a Charming Forest Home: Sixteen Doors House Posted: 20 Jul 2012 04:34 AM PDT Incorporated Studio completed the design for a project entitled Sixteen Doors and consisting of a cozy residence nestled in the clearing of a forest in rural Upstate New York. With an exterior adorned by wood, a picturesque deck and generously-sized windows, the residence is camouflaged in its environment and takes advantage of all the peacefulness the privileged landscape offers. The interiors are absolutely charming, with colors reigning throughout and rustic details seamlessly blending with modern decor elements and captivating wall art. Acting as the core of the house, the open plan living and dining space is filled with energy. Inviting seating units, fluffy pillows, original looking bar chairs, picture frames and various art decorations make this interior highly original. The eclectic design is taken further into the bedrooms, where comfort is mixed with tastefulness and surprise. What are the details you find most inspiring about this lovely forest home? You're reading Comfort Meets Surprise in a Charming Forest Home: Sixteen Doors House originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Unique Building Structure Alternating Between Living And Parking [Video] Posted: 20 Jul 2012 04:23 AM PDT   Parking spaces transforming into housing units – is that a viable idea we should seriously take into consideration? According to San Francisco-based designer Aaron Cheng, who submitted this interesting idea to this year's James Dyson Awards, a building that alternates between housing and parking is not only possible, but it can also be a solution to crowding for both people and cars. The Parking + Housing project is this creative designer’s solution to a common problem – “During daytime, the housing units are compressed to create spaces for parking, while at night, the process reverses with parking turning back into living quarters via a pneumatic structure.” Inspired by the growing number of population and vehicles in major urban areas, the designer’s solution spotted on Fatscodesign offers an alternative space utilization that seems to view this problem from behind a unique structure system: “The Pneumatic Shelter is the key in the development. This involves inflating an ETFE skin with air, inflated from the permanent utility module or hand pump. This unique structure system allows the project to transform from living space to parking space and vice verse.” Would you consider sharing your living space with your car? You're reading Unique Building Structure Alternating Between Living And Parking [Video] originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Enjoying A Luxurious Multisensorial Experience With The Loop Shower Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:56 AM PDT Summer is in full bloom and we all search for methods to make these few months energetic, comfortable and enjoyable. We stumbled upon a modern outdoor/indoor shower that promises a multisensorial experience. The Loop Shower comes from Diego Granese of Granese Architecture and Design Studio and imagines a world where relaxation and invigoration go hand in hand. Captured in between the futuristic hollow sphere design, six horizontal streams and an overhead rain shower ensure a luxuriant showering experience. This new Italian product comes with an interesting lighting system that adds an extra dimension to a daily activity. The Loop Shower found on Interior Complex can be used both indoors (in the bathroom or the spa) or outdoors, by the swimming pool or on the deck, even surrounded by green lusciousness in the garden. This sculptural design is perfectly adapted for modern outdoor spaces – complete it with a fantastic view and you have your favorite summer water feature at your disposal. You're reading Enjoying A Luxurious Multisensorial Experience With The Loop Shower originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

Ambitious Urban Regeneration Project Leading With New Multimedia Center Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:45 AM PDT Part of an ambitious urban regeneration project embellishing a land that used to be defined by hydroelectric-powered textile industries, the new Oloron Saint Marie Multimedia Center displays its bold architecture in the town of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France. French architectural firm Pascale Guédot, in collaboration with Michel Corajoud, took this first step in re-imagining this abandoned beret factory into a wonderful media center built on the remaining stone foundation. Located at the confluence of the Aspe and Ossau torrents, it just had to capture this natural beauty within its architecture, so the architects designed the 2,700 square meter building as a main wood latticed volume floating on top of a glass level below, where children are encouraged to discover new things. This beautifully modern multimedia center was linked to the opposite banks via two walkways uniting in a 1,255 square meter public concourse and creating a necessary connection between river banks. A 44 car parking space ensures visitors are carefree when walking through the Oloron Saint Marie Multimedia Center’s glass entrance. You're reading Ambitious Urban Regeneration Project Leading With New Multimedia Center originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

IKEA Launches Interactive Augmented-Reality Catalog For 2013 Posted: 19 Jul 2012 09:03 AM PDT Besides wonderful inspiration and smart solutions, the new IKEA Catalog 2013 welcomes mobile augmented-reality making IKEA fans one of the most lavished people. The most recent annual IKEA catalog offers inspiration for better everyday life at home transposed into the digital world with the help of an interactive mobile app that unveils hidden details in the catalogs. Available starting with the week of July 30, the catalog will be followed by the release of the free IKEA Catalog App on July 31st. Some products captured within 324 pages will have the smartphone symbol guiding you through dynamic inspiration films and features and even “behind the scenes” footage of their motivating work on the project. Just a small glimpse into the new world of IKEA leaves us wanting more: “For instance, we've stopped dividing life at home into rooms. Bedrooms, for example – they're as varied as the ways people sleep. We've taken away our notions of what defined a 'bedroom' and replaced them with the idea 'sleeping.' We know that some homes don't have 'bedrooms' – they have one 24-hour room where people live and sleep. Life is about activities; not the walls that define where they unfold.” Can’t wait to unlock this new world of IKEA possibilities! You're reading IKEA Launches Interactive Augmented-Reality Catalog For 2013 originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+

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