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U Coppu / Studio DiDeA
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- Architects: Studio DiDeA
- Location: Favignana TP, Italy
- Architects In Charge: Nicola Giuseppe Andò, Emanuela Di Gaetano, Giuseppe De Lisi, Alfonso Riccio
- Area: 78.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Studio Didea and Dario De Benedictis
- Collaborator: Dario De Benedictis
- Contractor: Giuseppe Morghese
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‘U’ Coppu’ is a deli shop for fried food, designed with the aim to bring indoors Sicilian street food.
© Studio Didea and Dario De Benedictis
The project maintains unaltered the original vaulted spaces, where the new functions are hosted: seating area, the kitchen and the laboratory.
© Studio Didea and Dario De Benedictis
The counter evokes a typical street food’s counter. It is made by simple material such as larch, glass and a iron framework, from which light bulbs hang, illuminating the whole space.
Plan
The seating area is separated from the kitchen by a glazed wall that allows customers to see food preparation, that is served in coppu, the typical street food paper cone.
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The floor is made by natural larch strip planking, which continues up the walls and ends in shelves.
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A resin band on the floor emphasizes the entry inviting to step into place, and the iron framework acts as graphic character of the whole project.
© Studio Didea and Dario De Benedictis
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The Little Red Ants / PRODUCE
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- Designers: PRODUCE
- Location: CT Hub 2, 114 Lavender Street, #11-80, Singapore 338729
- Project Lead: PRODUCE WORKSHOP
- Lead Designer: PAN Yicheng
- Area: 170.0 ft2
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Edward Hendricks, CI&A Photography
- Collaborators: LOH Jian Hao, Jay; Don YAP; Stanley TAN; FU Yingzi; CHUA Hong Zhi; Chantal TAN; TEO Xiao Wei
- Civil And Structural Engineer: C2E Consultants
- Carpenters: Teck Lee Carpenters
- Metal Works: Wah Chye Engineering Work
- Acoustic Consultant And Supply Of Acoustic Panels: Sound Materials Pte Ltd
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Little Red Ants is a creative studio known for churning out compelling videos for a multitude of clients. The nature of their work means they work round the clock, and their new office at CT Hub 2 at Lavender Street needs to be a sanctuary for eat, sleep and play, in addition to work.
Diagram
The brief also called for a space that promotes communication as every project demands contributions from numerous staff members. As everyone has their little role and contribution to the big picture, they should have their own little space in this ‘ants’ nest’. It is all about working cohesively as a single body and creating a sense of bonding and belonging. To some extent it is anti- hot-desking.
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The result is an open-plan office space occupied by a single piece of furniture – a continuous figure- of-eight work desk that casually demarcates the worker’s space and the visitor’s space.
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It was designed to flow with their work cycle (from writers to editors) and to mirror the way they work (from work to rest, eat and play). The work desk serves as an organisational structure that absorbs and appropriates all storage and functions into its own form. The table bends up to cover the editing suite, full bathroom, server room, meeting-cum-casting room and pantry – forming a elevated platform – before bending down and looping back to the work stations. This single connecting structure also presented the possibility of concealing all cabling within it. The desk is one long looped cable train, and the cables are planned and laid concurrently during assembly on site.
Plan
Naturally the single biggest challenge in this project is the fabrication of this central feature, which is an object that most carpenters will reject. The designers were able to use the company’s prototyping capability to test out possible solutions. To create the sinuous form, the internal curved supporting ribs and table top of the desk were cut using the CNC machine at the PRODUCE WORKSHOP. The finishing maple veneered ply sheets were scored with regular shallow cuts allowing it to bend over the curved structure forming a seamless joint between surfaces. This means that the carpenters need only to fit the customised cut pieces together using modular timber battens.
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Digital fabrication is the hero to realising the vision of this project. The single looping piece of furniture is poetic and is made possible through digital fabrication.
Subtle grouping of functions is achieved with lighting. The loops of hanging lights mark out the space for the writers and editors. As they work 24-7, alternate warm and white down lights are installed with dimmers allowing for the change of ambience to suit different needs.
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© Edward Hendricks, CI&A Photography
The meeting room can be opened up to be part of the overall space. It comes with a retractable table and transforms into a casting studio at the touch of a button.
The rendering and editing suite can be opened up to be part of the colony or closed off to create a sound proof environment. It is fitted with a cosy video lounge and hidden storage.
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All storage and functions form part of the central feature object in order to accentuate it. There are built-in iPad docking stations on the table and document racks hanging underneath it.
Dormy Inn Premium / PLANEARTH Architects
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- Architects: PLANEARTH Architects
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Interior Design : Uone Design Group
- Area: 9949.48 sqm
- Project Year: 2014
- Photographs: Kim Teck Woo
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From the architect. Dormy Inn Premium Seoul Garosugil Hotel is on the way into Garosugil which is famous as a fashion street. Garosugil is a representative attraction area of Seoul Gangnam, famous for fashion boutiques and cafes in low-rise buildings along the long tree-lined streets.
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Its southern side is facing the business quarter of Gangnam area across a 50m-wide boulevard, and its northern side consists of commercial district in low-rise buildings with an open view toward Han River.
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In the beginning, planned as a neighborhood living facility with 15 stories focused to clinic facility, it was under construction for basement. After the design change to a hotel was confirmed, Planearth Architects took charge in architecture design and completed the construction in early 2015.
© Kim Teck Woo
By the nature of Commercial area, a typical architecture with central corridor in a full usage of lot coverage according to the building line cannot but become exclusive for back side street and, in most cases, the severance between front and back side street is accordingly unavoidable.
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When changing its use to hotel facility, the first thing we proposed was to construct newly a pedestrian passage out of the space spared from the left side of the building. By installing a pedestrian passage connecting the front street and the rear shopping street in order to make it an alley naturally created between buildings where people pass by frequently rather than a passage concept simply connecting one point to another, this makes it possible not only for hotel quests but also for normal passers-by to access directly the rear pedestrian street without making a long detour through the boulevard, and by locating the hotel sunken space for the ventilation and skylight of the underground floor and the exit of the rear shops at the pedestrian passage side, it makes it possible to connect the hotel restaurants, hotel sauna and the exit of the rear shops.
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In addition, for facade design, three skins expressing long queues of trees, the shadow made by the trees and their branches are overlapped in order to symbolize the long queues of trees along Garosugil where the hotel is located.
Diagram
The difference of the projected surfaces made by overlapping stone material in a black tone that represents trees and branches in a white tone, irregularly arrayed against the background of curtain wall in a dark blue tone which is a metaphor of shadow, creates a deep shadow and realizes faithfully the feeling of perspective.
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The stone material in a black tone was designed applying various modules with width of windows from 700mm, minimum requirement for evacuation, to 650mm, 700mm, 800mm and 900mm.
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The façade designed in such way may became an attractive signpost and, at the same time, recognized as a symbol of Garosugil for everyone including travelers finding their way out and residents frequently passing by this area.
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Dormy Inn Premium Seoul Garosugil Hotel, the first Korean branch of Japanese business hotel chain, has 215 guest rooms and auxiliary facilities such as downtown sauna facility which is a special feature of Dormy Inn Hotel, a restaurant mainly for breakfast serving Japanese home-style cooking and a sky lounge at the top floor.
© Kim Teck Woo
This hotel is a building with 6 stories below and 17 above the ground, and its total floor area is 9,949.48m2.
© Kim Teck Woo
The basic interior design of the hotel was charged by ILYA Corporation in Japan according to the facility standard of Dormy Inn Hotel.
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