Quresh Tyebji: Looking Out Week 11

This courtyard house blends the simplicity of wood with the mass and beauty of concrete. Designed by Korean architects IROJE KHM “artfully incorporates indoors and out into its layered levels for living.” It’s located in Goyan, Korea. The structure is anchored through by the concrete base with the wood as the lightweight piece above. Garden spaces are below while living are above. The greatest thing is how the window openings define where the wood and concrete materials are assembled.

(http://www.trendir.com/house-design/courtyard-house-architecture-in-beautiful-concrete-and-wood.html)

Quresh Tyebji: Looking Out Week 10

It reminded me of the Metropol Parasol in Seville but of course on a smaller scale. The BANQ Restaurant by Office dA in Boston has a huge curved wooden sculpture placed in the middle of the structure. It’s made with ¾” birch plywood put together like a puzzle piece. The layout of the wood follows the intent of dining areas. In addition, the light assists it in creating “warm wood” spaces that enhance the ambience of the restaurant.

(https://karmatrendz.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/banq-restaurant-by-office-da/)

Quresh Tyebji: Looking Out Week 9

This wooden pavilion is another great example of how parametric wood design comes into play. It also shows how flexible and scalable wood can be. Using its simple and unique quality, and with the help of technology, it shows how clean wood can be. The Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart came together to create this design. They were inspired by the biological principles of a sea urchin’s “plate skeleton morphology.” It’s built with very thin sheets of plywood; in addition, the play with light also brings about a certain ambiance that reflects the biological morphology of the subject.

(http://www.realwowz.net/2013/03/parametric-wood-architecture-germany.html)

How it’s made: (http://super-architects.com/archives/1731)

Quresh Tyebji: Looking Out Week 8

This is by far one of the sexiest coffee tables I’ve ever seen. It’s part of the Mensa tables by a company in Manchester called Lazerian. The table is make with birch plywood modules (probably CNC’d) with stainless steel rods for its stable structure. Looking at how thin the wood is, I’m wondering how the plywood is bend that much without snapping, especially with a thick piece of glass on top. In any case, the complex design is done in such a way with few materials that it makes the overall table look beautiful. Would you like it? It’s only £2000.00.

(http://www.lazerian.co.uk/prod-mensa-coffee-table.php)

Quresh Tyebji: Looking Out Week 7

We always discuss how to design things that don’t waste space, are efficient, and is flexible. Well, this is literally flexible (as well as the others). Here is the first Dynamic Cantilever Chair called MIESROLO (name maybe inspired by Mies van der Rohe?). Nothing fancy is done with the wood; just simple blocks of wood that are connected together through a synthetic band. The user can essentially create any shape and then fold it right back up for easy storage. This innovative concept by Designer Uros Vitas “placed 1st on the contest of Wood Agency Design Belgrade 2008 and won the Best Scientific-Professional work award in 2006/07 at University of Belgrade.”
(http://www.tuvie.com/miesrolo-a-foldable-wood-chair/)

Quresh Tyebji: Looking Out Week 6

We are always trying to figure out ways to blend wood with technology due to woods natural and simple properties. OOOMS did something very cool where they created USB sticks in association with a wooden finish. Each wood / USB stick is custom designed bringing technology back to its natural beauty. There are many other works of blending technology and wood using elegant and simple designs on the following link http://www.archieli.com/gadgets/10-cool-wooden-gadgets/.