art | B3 Designers

29/10

OPEN HOUSE – 20 ROOM VERTICAL GREENHOUSE

Could this be the future of community centres? Open House is a vertical village of haphazardly stacked house shaped rooms recently opened in Anyang, Korea.

Raumlaborkorea, a research and intervention unit of the design group Raumlaborberlin, were invited to design, programme and build this centre as part of ‘Anyang public art project/ A new community in the open city’. Described by it’s designers as a ‘social sculpture’, the project aims to knit into the existing urban and social landscape and not only serves the local community but was also built by them!

Two hundred residents of Anyang took part in building workshops and completed the stacked rooms which include a bicycle rent shop, a children’s play pavillion, a community garden and a tea room.

I love this project, Raumlaborkorea have reinvented the architecture associated with community and participation and created a playful and exciting project which also looks great!

17/06

Tape installation

This must be one of the coolest installations I’ve seen in a while, such an innovative use of material. The installation by Croatian design collective use/numen is made of 530 rolls of transparent self adhesive tape (thats 35 600m, 45kg!). The amorphous surface was created by continuously wrapping strands of tape between columns in an ex-stock exchange building.

The concept of the installation evolved from the idea of recording the movement of dancers, the resulting shape is meant to be a ‘mapping’ of the choreography. The result is an organic looking web that complements the architectural fabric in a rather eerie way.

The installation in Berlin, presented by the Vienna Design Week Embassy, is a follow up on a previous installation by the same artists the gallery of the Croatian Designer’s Society. First time round they used 19 cardboard tubes and 118 roles of tape. The entire installation took 96 hours and €95 to complete.

(via designboom)

30/09

Radical Nature at the Barbican

Radical Nature

Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009

19 June 2009 – 18 October 2009
Barbican Art Gallery

For another two weeks, the Barbican is featuring an exhibit of nature-inspired designs, displaying an international collection of independent and collaborative work from both artists and architects. The designs focus on the subject of utopianism, and seek to provide adaptive solutions for our changing environment.

We found several inspiring architectural works. Symbiosishood by R&Sie(n), is a building situated between North and South Korea that borrows its form from the topography it sits upon. Eventually, it will blend invisibly into the landscape as the invasive vine it’s covered in overtakes the structure by vegetative expansion. Tree Mountain by Agnes Denes combines agriculture, environmental art, and architecture to create a circular forest atop a conical mountain in Finland. The Green Room by A12 (pictured) is an interactive installation, providing a sense of serene solitude within the walls of the mirrored garden.

24/07

Free Range Graduate Art & Design Interior Design Show

by Tina M Cheng

The 2009 show is the first time that all Interior Design School have exhibited together under one roof as unified discipline. Student prior to this did have the opportunity of exhibiting at the Business Design Centre in Islington, at the New Designers Exhibition, but were always pushed out the the edge of the building while other disciplines took centre stage.

The show which was piloted in conjunction with Tamsin O’Hanlon who set up Free range at the Truman Brewery and Andrew Stone the Interior Educators President. The exhibition has given the new crop of talent a wonderful platform to work from. We can only image the benefit this will also have on all students still studying that have seen the show and want to better the standard or at least aim to parr with the standard that has been set by their peers.

We have collated some of the students work that piqued our interest are shown here. Free Range Art & Design Summer Show