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For his new Waste Screen Recycle project, designer Haneul Kim has collaborated with CGV, Korea’s biggest movie brand, to repurpose waste movie screens from theaters into portable lamps that utilize small perforations in the material to emit light. The designer has drawn inspiration from the iconic shogun lamp by Mario Botta, characterized by clean lines and geometric precision. According to Kim, discarded movie screens represent excellent materials capable of substituting cloth or leather, due to their exceptional functional and a visual resemblance to aluminum perforated plates commonly used in industrial projects.
For his new Waste Screen Recycle project, designer Haneul Kim has collaborated with CGV, Korea’s biggest movie brand, to repurpose waste movie screens from theaters into portable lamps that utilize small perforations in the material to emit light. The designer has drawn inspiration from the iconic shogun lamp by Mario Botta, characterized by clean lines and geometric precision. According to Kim, discarded movie screens represent excellent materials capable of substituting cloth or leather, due to their exceptional functional and a visual resemblance to aluminum perforated plates commonly used in industrial projects.
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Commissioned to create outdoor lighting for the brand new Victoriapark in Eindhoven, Dutch duo VANTOT has introduced a design for a solar powered sustainable and interactive light-installation called Sunseeker. The smart solar harvesting modules are equipped with light sensors that inform each individual light fixture to spin on its axis or move along the light chain to find the sunniest spots, much like sunflowers spinning to catch sun rays. This allows the fixture to escape the shadows of the urban landscape and optimizes solar harvesting. Built with a modular design principle in mind, the lighting is environmentally and financially more friendly, as each of its parts can be replaced and mended separately.
Commissioned to create outdoor lighting for the brand new Victoriapark in Eindhoven, Dutch duo VANTOT has introduced a design for a solar powered sustainable and interactive light-installation called Sunseeker. The smart solar harvesting modules are equipped with light sensors that inform each individual light fixture to spin on its axis or move along the light chain to find the sunniest spots, much like sunflowers spinning to catch sun rays. This allows the fixture to escape the shadows of the urban landscape and optimizes solar harvesting. Built with a modular design principle in mind, the lighting is environmentally and financially more friendly, as each of its parts can be replaced and mended separately.
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Brazilian practice Estúdio Campana founded by the brothers Humberto and the late Fernando Campana has collaborated with æquo, India’s first collectible design gallery, to craft the Atuxuá cabinet, which pays homage to India's history, rich craft heritage, techniques, and raw materials, such as natural fibre and brass wires. According to Humberto Campana, the intricacy of the Sabai grass and the metalwork represents a parallel between the spirituality, rituals, and religious syncretism we can find both in India and Brazil.
Brazilian practice Estúdio Campana founded by the brothers Humberto and the late Fernando Campana has collaborated with æquo, India’s first collectible design gallery, to craft the Atuxuá cabinet, which pays homage to India's history, rich craft heritage, techniques, and raw materials, such as natural fibre and brass wires. According to Humberto Campana, the intricacy of the Sabai grass and the metalwork represents a parallel between the spirituality, rituals, and religious syncretism we can find both in India and Brazil.
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Originally conceived in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) as a low-cost, rapid-deployment housing solution to rebuild Ukraine, ReHome concept by studio Cutwork proposes structures that would be equally relevant for addressing the growing global housing crisis in times of stability. The modular 27 sqm units can be stacked like Lego bricks to complete a full residential block up to 6 stories in significantly less time (up to 40%) than conventional construction methods. The system is expandable by removing non-load bearing walls to easily combine multiple modules and create larger units according to a wide-range of conditions and contexts.
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Originally conceived in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) as a low-cost, rapid-deployment housing solution to rebuild Ukraine, ReHome concept by studio Cutwork proposes structures that would be equally relevant for addressing the growing global housing crisis in times of stability. The modular 27 sqm units can be stacked like Lego bricks to complete a full residential block up to 6 stories in significantly less time (up to 40%) than conventional construction methods. The system is expandable by removing non-load bearing walls to easily combine multiple modules and create larger units according to a wide-range of conditions and contexts.
More affordable housing with a great quality of living in our blog
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Co-Habitable Object by Chinese practice Atelier Alter Architects invites humans and animals to connect on a physical level and share meaningful moments together within the abstract and organic form. The collection is comprised of adaptable modules that can extend horizontally and vertically, offering versatile configurations — from urban furniture to traversable walls — that can be used by humans. In the meantime, through a series of internal ellipsoidal subtractions, the team created interconnected cave-like units specifically tailored to the nesting habits of small animals.
Co-Habitable Object by Chinese practice Atelier Alter Architects invites humans and animals to connect on a physical level and share meaningful moments together within the abstract and organic form. The collection is comprised of adaptable modules that can extend horizontally and vertically, offering versatile configurations — from urban furniture to traversable walls — that can be used by humans. In the meantime, through a series of internal ellipsoidal subtractions, the team created interconnected cave-like units specifically tailored to the nesting habits of small animals.
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Seeking to revitalize struggling fishing industry in the historic Angsila fishing village in Chonburi, Thailand, the Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion by Bangkok-based Chat Architects invites eco-tourism enthusiasts taste oysters pulled from the ocean below. The design draws on bamboo scaffolding traditionally used for oyster cultivation: local fishermen manually drive each bamboo column into the ocean floor. Rejected car seatbelts, acquired at a discount due to discoloration from local auto plants, are used to tie all of the bamboo members together. The finishing touch is added by vivid red light-filtering agricultural tarp, which is used to shade visitors from the ocean sun while letting the breeze in.
Seeking to revitalize struggling fishing industry in the historic Angsila fishing village in Chonburi, Thailand, the Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion by Bangkok-based Chat Architects invites eco-tourism enthusiasts taste oysters pulled from the ocean below. The design draws on bamboo scaffolding traditionally used for oyster cultivation: local fishermen manually drive each bamboo column into the ocean floor. Rejected car seatbelts, acquired at a discount due to discoloration from local auto plants, are used to tie all of the bamboo members together. The finishing touch is added by vivid red light-filtering agricultural tarp, which is used to shade visitors from the ocean sun while letting the breeze in.
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OPEN CALL: Imagine what various aspects of future may look like, and create relevant imagery. Share an image with us and win €300! Don't forget the hashtag #BEOPENFutureVision.
BE OPEN invites you to join our new #BEOPENFutureVision open call and share the visuals that reveal your vision of the future to connect with open-minded people worldwide. This may range from creating your own futuristic art pieces to capturing glimpses of the future in the lights, reflections and architecture of modern cities, or to AI generated images - you can prove that your creativity is unlimited, and images of the future are all around us today.
The open call will close February 29th, 2024. The winner will receive a €300 prize.
Interested in taking part? Learn more at beopensocial.com
OPEN CALL: Imagine what various aspects of future may look like, and create relevant imagery. Share an image with us and win €300! Don't forget the hashtag #BEOPENFutureVision.
BE OPEN invites you to join our new #BEOPENFutureVision open call and share the visuals that reveal your vision of the future to connect with open-minded people worldwide. This may range from creating your own futuristic art pieces to capturing glimpses of the future in the lights, reflections and architecture of modern cities, or to AI generated images - you can prove that your creativity is unlimited, and images of the future are all around us today.
The open call will close February 29th, 2024. The winner will receive a €300 prize.
Interested in taking part? Learn more at beopensocial.com
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French artist Vincent Leroy has installed an XL version of his Floating Lenses optical mobile in an XL version on the waters of Canada's Lake Louise. Made up of 128 fresnel lenses mounted on carbon rods, the mobile reacts to the slightest breeze, swirling above the water and reflecting itself in its mirroring surface. Accrodingt o the artist, the enigmatic nebula of an installation transforms reality and shifts the viewer ‘into another temporality, another dimension, that of dreams and illusion.’
French artist Vincent Leroy has installed an XL version of his Floating Lenses optical mobile in an XL version on the waters of Canada's Lake Louise. Made up of 128 fresnel lenses mounted on carbon rods, the mobile reacts to the slightest breeze, swirling above the water and reflecting itself in its mirroring surface. Accrodingt o the artist, the enigmatic nebula of an installation transforms reality and shifts the viewer ‘into another temporality, another dimension, that of dreams and illusion.’
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Developed by Beijing-based architectural firm TAO, In-between Pavilion in Nantou Ancient Town, Shenzhen, is an exhibition gallery built on a densely packed and compressed site sitting between two residences. Due to spatial limitations, the team attempted to maximize floor area, projecting volumes further outwards as floors ascend. Light and semi-translucent metal mesh covers the facade, like a hazy veil, blurring the boundary between indoors and outdoors.
Developed by Beijing-based architectural firm TAO, In-between Pavilion in Nantou Ancient Town, Shenzhen, is an exhibition gallery built on a densely packed and compressed site sitting between two residences. Due to spatial limitations, the team attempted to maximize floor area, projecting volumes further outwards as floors ascend. Light and semi-translucent metal mesh covers the facade, like a hazy veil, blurring the boundary between indoors and outdoors.
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The Naaaan Time clock by Japanese artist Yukiko Morita is inspired by The Persistence of Memory, famous painting by Salvador Dali, which depicts a surreal scene of melting clocks in a natural landscape. The artist makes the clock from the real naan bread using flour, salt, yeast and sugar. Since every unique piece is hand baked, it bears a different texture and expression. The resulting object is then covered with a layer of an anti-bacterial and anti-fungal sealant to protect the bread from decaying. A clock dial and batteries added to the surface of the bread turns the edible into a functional object.
More pieces reimagining iconic artworks in our blog
The Naaaan Time clock by Japanese artist Yukiko Morita is inspired by The Persistence of Memory, famous painting by Salvador Dali, which depicts a surreal scene of melting clocks in a natural landscape. The artist makes the clock from the real naan bread using flour, salt, yeast and sugar. Since every unique piece is hand baked, it bears a different texture and expression. The resulting object is then covered with a layer of an anti-bacterial and anti-fungal sealant to protect the bread from decaying. A clock dial and batteries added to the surface of the bread turns the edible into a functional object.
More pieces reimagining iconic artworks in our blog
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Competition! Design Your Climate Action!
Speed up to submit your entry to BE OPEN's Design Your Climate Action global competition. DEADLINE is JANUARY 31, 2024. Win €5,000 as the First prize, €3,000 as the Second, and €2,000 as the Third prize. There will also be the BE OPEN's Choice prize of €3,000 and the Public Vote prize of €2,000.
The competition aims to encourage creation of innovative solutions by students and recent graduates, for a more prosperous and sustainable future; the focus of the competition is the United Nations’ SDG13: Climate Action.
See the rules and guidelines, and submit your projects online at designclimateaction.com
Competition! Design Your Climate Action!
Speed up to submit your entry to BE OPEN's Design Your Climate Action global competition. DEADLINE is JANUARY 31, 2024. Win €5,000 as the First prize, €3,000 as the Second, and €2,000 as the Third prize. There will also be the BE OPEN's Choice prize of €3,000 and the Public Vote prize of €2,000.
The competition aims to encourage creation of innovative solutions by students and recent graduates, for a more prosperous and sustainable future; the focus of the competition is the United Nations’ SDG13: Climate Action.
See the rules and guidelines, and submit your projects online at designclimateaction.com
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Indian product designer Rishikesh Sonawane has conceptualized reU, a sustainable and reusable water bottle packaging using TetraPak, which once bought can be reused for a considerate period of time. Unlike plastic (PET) bottles, TetraPak is easier to recycle and less polluting to the environment. Aseptic as it is, the material has an ability to preserve its contents for longer duration without the need of preservatives. The prototype of the bottle was assembled from pieces of discarded TetraPak juice/milk boxes using waterproofing tape and silicone sealant. The loop of the bottle securing the cap was made using the same TetraPak sheet – not only it adds to the product's usability but also makes it easier to recycle the piece as a whole.
Indian product designer Rishikesh Sonawane has conceptualized reU, a sustainable and reusable water bottle packaging using TetraPak, which once bought can be reused for a considerate period of time. Unlike plastic (PET) bottles, TetraPak is easier to recycle and less polluting to the environment. Aseptic as it is, the material has an ability to preserve its contents for longer duration without the need of preservatives. The prototype of the bottle was assembled from pieces of discarded TetraPak juice/milk boxes using waterproofing tape and silicone sealant. The loop of the bottle securing the cap was made using the same TetraPak sheet – not only it adds to the product's usability but also makes it easier to recycle the piece as a whole.
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Commissioned by French developer Christian Bourdais to create an ultimate holiday home to be built in Spain as part of Solo Houses project, Tokyo-based practice Takei Nabeshima Architects has developed a concrete residence shaped like an inverted pyramid structure wedged into a hillside. The unusual gravity defying house comprises four floors and it topped by an open-air square-shaped pool accessed via a staircase from the hallway.
Commissioned by French developer Christian Bourdais to create an ultimate holiday home to be built in Spain as part of Solo Houses project, Tokyo-based practice Takei Nabeshima Architects has developed a concrete residence shaped like an inverted pyramid structure wedged into a hillside. The unusual gravity defying house comprises four floors and it topped by an open-air square-shaped pool accessed via a staircase from the hallway.
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Portable dishwasher by Taipei-based designer Lin Shuo De utilizes a method of interaction that takes cues from another kitchen appliance, the toaster. Dirty items are lowered into the stainless steel tank, where than water is added and an ultrasonic transducer agitates the dirt and separates it from the dishes. After the cleaning is completed, the platform rises letting wind come out from both right and left sides to dry out water drops.
More alternatives to owning a conventional dishwasher in our blog
Portable dishwasher by Taipei-based designer Lin Shuo De utilizes a method of interaction that takes cues from another kitchen appliance, the toaster. Dirty items are lowered into the stainless steel tank, where than water is added and an ultrasonic transducer agitates the dirt and separates it from the dishes. After the cleaning is completed, the platform rises letting wind come out from both right and left sides to dry out water drops.
More alternatives to owning a conventional dishwasher in our blog
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Developed by London-based architecture office Alma-nac and set to be built this summer, ‘The Upside-down House’ is a competition winning design for a playhouse in a new children's play park in Green Park Village, a residential neighbourhood in Reading, England. This simple concept gives rise to a whole new world. The floor becomes the sky, the roof becomes the floor, one can enter through the chimney and slide out of the front door. Other highlights include a climbing wall that adjoins a window, a balcony surrounded by a painted picket fence and a tunnel concealed behind a pair of rose windows.
Developed by London-based architecture office Alma-nac and set to be built this summer, ‘The Upside-down House’ is a competition winning design for a playhouse in a new children's play park in Green Park Village, a residential neighbourhood in Reading, England. This simple concept gives rise to a whole new world. The floor becomes the sky, the roof becomes the floor, one can enter through the chimney and slide out of the front door. Other highlights include a climbing wall that adjoins a window, a balcony surrounded by a painted picket fence and a tunnel concealed behind a pair of rose windows.
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Aiming to provide low-cost housing for middle- and lower-income families in Uganda, where there is a shortage of housing units, architect Marc Thorpe has designed a set of houses that will be constructed almost entirely from Ecoblocks, bio-bricks made from local soil with a mixture of cement, sand, lime and water. The material patented by the social housing company Échale is a bioclimatic, thermal and acoustic insulator, ecological and more resistant than cement block. Other sustainable features will include large, flat roofs made from corrugated steel and wood topped by solar panels.
Aiming to provide low-cost housing for middle- and lower-income families in Uganda, where there is a shortage of housing units, architect Marc Thorpe has designed a set of houses that will be constructed almost entirely from Ecoblocks, bio-bricks made from local soil with a mixture of cement, sand, lime and water. The material patented by the social housing company Échale is a bioclimatic, thermal and acoustic insulator, ecological and more resistant than cement block. Other sustainable features will include large, flat roofs made from corrugated steel and wood topped by solar panels.
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This lounge chair by Milan-based designer Miray Ozlem has been conceived to resemble a caterpillar entering its cocoon phase. It is comprised of a set of "ropes" draping over a metal frame. These tubes are filled with sponge material to give them both volume and softness at the same time.
More unconventional seating in our blog
This lounge chair by Milan-based designer Miray Ozlem has been conceived to resemble a caterpillar entering its cocoon phase. It is comprised of a set of "ropes" draping over a metal frame. These tubes are filled with sponge material to give them both volume and softness at the same time.
More unconventional seating in our blog