Casa F+M is a private residence renovated by OKS ARCHITETTI in 2015. It is located in Grosseto, Italy. Casa F+M by OKS ARCHITETTI: “The project is a renovation of an apartment for a young couple with a child and a lively cat in Grosseto. The intervention, besides having secured a different distribution of the internal spaces, has permitted to add a new room, bathroom and studio, leaving unchanged the volume..
From the architect. This project of transforming part of a former sparkling wine factory into a multimedia art center was inspired by a genuine interest in the history of the building and executed through a series of light — both in terms of the artwork material and the manner — interventions into the space.
MARS, the first contemporary art gallery to be founded in post-Soviet Moscow, now functions as an innovative multimedia art institution. In May 2016, a new MARS center was opened amidst Abrau-Durso’s idyllic scenery — a picturesque locale in the South of Russia. The gallery spans the entire first floor of the stone-clad champagne factory.
The Nowadays team decided to keep the hallmarks of its industrial past — factory switches and breaker boxes — intact and execute all the interventions in a delicate and respectful way, preserving the historical layers. All the navigation elements designed by a Moscow based MANEGE development department are put together using materials “native” to contemporary multimedia art — differently sized LED-tubes and thin black metal sheets.
While the white box has long been established as a default setting for traditional forms of ‘low-tech’ art, high-tech multimedia art usually requires a black box to bring out all of its features. But the monotonous black space can bore, tire and disorient the visitor. The Nowadays office decided to execute the gallery project as a sequence of ‘black’ (dark) and ‘white’ (well-lit) spaces, where most of the artworks are stored inside the rooms (boxes, essentially) which are carefully installed within the existing interior. This approach also serves the goal of delicately incorporating the new into the old.
Some of the rooms functioning as artwork containers are boxed-off with chemically treated rainbow steel — a aid to emphasise both the industrial spirit of the space and the ephemerality of the light-based artwork.
The new concrete floor doesn’t touch the walls, but keeps it’s polite distance from the historical elements of the building. This gap that is filled with gravel-stones collected from the lakeshore is also creating nests for the soft LED-lighting.
The biggest intervention is in the corridor, where the registration desk and lockers are merged into one solid steel sculpture, providing an exciting preface to the exhibition.
On the opposite side — at the end of the exhibition — there is a secret room where, due to its geographic orientation, beautiful rays of light create a poetic atmosphere almost all-day-round. There is no artwork but visitors are encouraged to put on one of the VR-helmets that are offered and take a simulated tour of the Moscow MARS center. Not a teleportation hall, but close enough.
Product Description. One of the most aesthetically prominent materials of this project is galvanized steel. Galvanization that produces a rainbow effect on the metal surface is normally used to treat small metal elements, such as framing nails, rolled angles, etc., to make them durable and rust-resistant. We were genuinely inspired by those multicolor blotches and decided to experiment with the same technology and material but on a larger surface — as large as the size of galvanizing bath allows. So our partners, Moscow based multi-functional production company Macrofabrica used galvanization on 1800 x 900 cm steel sheets. The outcome was used to make polychromatic metal boxes for exhibiting individual artworks – to emphasize both the industrial spirit of the space and the ephemerality of the light-based artwork.
The clients who had a great deal of fatigue in working and in the urban environment asked to us design a house surrounded by nature. They had a desire for a unique space that was different from the apartment where they lived.
The site is a steep slope with mountains in the back. We did not want to design on the land properly arranged by cutting the ground or build up the soil . The point was to actively use the surrounding natural environment and land while comply with slope of the land and overturns the concept of the building form what people think.
The house in the ground, the nature in the house. A house-shaped white shell is the space embrace the nature. The residential space lower than the ground level enables a variety of spatial experiences through the skip floor planning. By reversing the shape of the land and the house, we wanted to think about the relationship between house and nature and notion of form.
Product Description. Dirt runs off with the water that falls on the facade. The Lotusan exterior coating possesses a highly water-repellent surface similar to that of the lotus leaf. Its microstructure has been modeled on the lotus plant to minimize the contact area for water and dirt.
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Every person who has made up their mind on becoming a writer realizes that – just as with any other occupation – there are a lot of catches and tiny things to be aware of. Therefore, they seek advice from the more renowned and established authors on how to create a great piece. Also how to unleash the inner writer, how to avoid writer’s block, etc. The best way to look for such advice is, obviously, just to google it. True, there are a lot of articles on the topic to be found all over the Internet. But while many of such articles are relevant and comprehensive, it is quite naive to assume that such a massive topic can be covered by just one or two articles – regardless of how well-written and to-the-point they may be.
If you want some substantial and complete recommendations, then you need something more than just a few articles. So, today we are bringing you 7 book for young and aspiring authors to read (in no particular order) to improve your writing skills. Mind that this article may contain spoilers to some of the mentioned titles.
First published in 1934, this book has aged well. It dives into every aspect of the creative process and recaptures the atmosphere of creative writing classes. From some of the best professors that the author herself had taken back in the 1920s. Book speculates on the very process of writing and the writer’s attitude towards their work, investigating what it takes to become a writer.
It is not a technical manual. But it’s rather a guide from a friendly tutor figure that is willing to explain how to be an author, how to discipline oneself to always get the work done, etc.
Dorothea Brande believes that everybody is born with a certain amount of talent, and it only takes some effort and determination to develop it, if you really want to become a writer.
This autobiography / masterclass was published in 2000, just one year after the author’s near-death experience. The book is brilliantly structured and flows smoothly from the author’s personal experiences to how they influence his writing. One of the world’s most celebrated writers of today.He uses his own example to give you a masterclass on how deeply personal issues can be dealt with by means of writing, and help you to share what you have to say in a way that the world will listen.
Apart from that, King investigates how his devotion to writing helped him to overcome his near-death experience, which makes this work also a great source of inspiration.
This pick is actually not a manual or a guide, but a fiction. First published in 2004, this book was awarded the Giller Prize that year.
This is a slow-paced prose. It flows simply and quietly, but one cannot but notice the enormous attention that the author has for the detail. This makes the book a true finding for an author who struggles to get and idea for a story. Illustrating how a single brief glance at something you see every day can give rise to an engaging story. This book can be viewed as a workshop on how to squeeze a good read from the most mundane things. Once you learn how the smallest and least noticeable detail can be immortalized in writing, you will inevitably feel guided on how to have your own masterpiece done.
Creative people are known to have some foibles. Sometimes writers reflect upon themselves and their peculiar habits, and ask themselves: “Is everything alright with me? Am I becoming some kind of a weirdo?” Not exactly a great thought for an artist to think.
In this book, Mason Currey collect the daily habits and quirks from 161 recognized writers. As well as some comments upon how these rituals were supposed to aid them in their creative process. After you read about someone who stands on their head for an hour or so and assures that it helps to overcome their writer’s block, your own peculiarities don’t seem so out-of-line anymore. In fact, your habits become quite innocent, if not mundane.
Despite the title, this book is well worth reading even if you are a fiction writer. It gives you an insight into the mechanics of the language. The advice is always sound, to-the-point, and conveyed in a warm and friendly tone.
Though the book was originally published in 1976, it stands the test of time well. It can be found useful by writers of all kinds: fiction and non-fiction, journalists and bloggers, even students who work on their school essays, or someone who has to write emails in their job.
Besides, William Zissner’s own writing is easy and inspiring – the kind of narration you might want to consider integrating into your own writing.
Another piece of fiction on this list. This seminal work by the celebrated Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner shudders the conventions of the writing of its time. It was originally published in 1930. The story of a poor family in a small town in the South on a quest to arrange their matriarch’s burial.
Not only is the story being told from not one, not two, but 15 different points of view. All these points of view look nothing like how a normal writer would write them down. They are as if they come directly from the character’s mind. A stream of consciousness was not a widely used technique at the time, let alone applying it to 15 different characters in one book.
William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is your perfect example of breaking the rules done right.
Suppose you have a good story already, but now you want it to get published and become a hit. This is the perfect guide on how to shape your story into a bestseller. Donald Maass is not only a successful novelist but also a top publishing agent. He is willing to share some insightful advice on how to get your writings skyrocketing to the tops of the charts.
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From the architect. SITE: The U38 house is located in Bangkok, Thailand. The 400 sqm house was designed for a couple and a child in the site next to the husband existing family house surrounded by typical suburban houses.
STRUCTURE: Since the owner and also a builder himself need to complete a house within 4 months, architect decided to use very simple steel structure on 6 by 5 meter grid to build it as fast as possible.
PROGRAM: The program is a 2 story house. Architect place the building on one side to keep some space for green area & swimming pool with carport at the front. On the ground floor including open plan of living room and dining room which are facing onto swimming pool and outdoor terrace. The second floor is composed of master bedroom, son bedroom and family room.
SCREEN: In order to protect Heat from the Tropical climate of South East Asia and creates privacy for the 2nd floor. Architect design a long terrace on the side to keep the room from the heat outside and moveable recycles wood skin panels over glass layer for more privacy and heat protection.
MATERIALS: Architect chose nature material for this house by use steel structure, painted plastered wall and brick wall and wood lattice.
From the architect. 40 days from design to construction completed-How to transfer a half-way building into a co-working factory
Longyue Hotel is a unfinished building for 10 years in Tianjin. OfficePROJECT was invited to transfer this abandoned 5000spm hotel space into a co-working model.
The first step is to catch the identity of the existing space. The space is high and empty. The rough feeling of an unfinished atmosphere is attractive and fascinating. We want to keep this identity as implanting several different space installation. Some different routes and experiences were set to encourage the communication and interaction between people and the primitive space. Through these paths, people start to encounter and observer. A new observation network formed. The desire of space exploration becomes the motivity of the creative productivity.
“wander”,”watch”,”enclosure”,”fold”, “look”,”traverse”,”loop”. These installations explain some basic ways of spacial experiences. We interacted these experiences as an complicated “The Garden of Forking Paths”. In this Borges’ novel, time sometimes endless, sometimes become a loop. The major character chose all possibilities. Different ending generated. This is the idea of today’s internet. An echo here presented between online and offline.
These installations have two materials- OSB boards and stressed steel panels. These two materials forms contrasts in different way with the primitive concrete space. These contrasts lead the breaking of the familiarity.
15 days form schematic design to construct drawings, 30 days of construction, this is an informal design process. This process represented a normal condition in China’s renovation projects nowadays.
