© Zooey Braun

A young family had its downtown Stuttgart attic apartment designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group. A generous loft-like living room area including an open space kitchen unit occupies the core of the apartment. The bare wooden roof construction was transformed into a space defining design element. By means of color and dynamic rounded shapes, its cladding forms a counterpart to the cubic nature of the furniture and equipment. Where they meet, the latter playfully submit to the beams and columns whose predominance is accentuated by lit gaps.
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© Jean Harixcalde

Re-structuring an old theatre of the 19th century in the heart of Paris to turn it into an interactive platform for 21st century music and arts poses a number of difficult problems. To sum them up we have conceived of a place that could cater to all the artistic activities of today, a place open to public visits but that was also a working studio where artists could actually create, produce and present.
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Construction start of MVRDV Glass Farm, Schijndel, Netherlands

In 1944 the small Brabant town of Schijndel which is the birthplace of Winy Maas suffered from Operation Market Garden bombings resulting in an oversized market square. In 1980 the then 20 year old Winy Maas urged the mayor to fill in the gap. Today Rembrand developers, the town of Schijndel and MVRDV start construction on the Glass Farm, a multifunctional building in the village square. The building with a total surface area of 1600m2 will contain shops, restaurants, offices and a wellness centre. The exterior is printed glass with the motive of a typical local farm; 1,6 times larger than life. Construction will be completed in December 2012.

Schijndel’s market square suffered from Operation Market Garden bombings in the Second World War and has been subject to numerous enlargements and refurbishments. Winy Maas wrote a letter in 1980, and in 2000 the city council adopted the idea of a new structure in the square between the church, town hall and main street. MVRDV since then iteratively proposed new options that could fill the gap of this unusually large village square. The Glass Farm is MVRDV’s seventh proposal for the site.

The village engaged vividly in the process resulting in heated debates, polls and polemics in the local press – by supporters and adversaries. The 1600m² building which is entirely covered by a glass facade will consist primarily of a series of public amenities such as restaurants, shops and a wellness centre.
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Interview for TSR Building

1. As an introduction, it would be important for us to know something about the following steps:

- Project history
- Contract
- Logistics and organization of the building yard
- Chronology
- Current stage of development
- Credits

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© Thomas Jantscher

The abbey of Saint Maurice was built almost 1500 years ago. It is situated against a cliff in a section of the road between Geneva and the Simplon Pass. This particular site was likely to be chosen for its defensive position given by the cliff. However the planned fortification proved a failure due to rock fragments falling from the cliff onto the building.
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Inspired by the drifting ice blocs on the oceans before shaping the ice floe, FLOE is a block who bring together and incite the encounter while taking part in an ensemble. The organic shape of the bench permit to create a dialogue and a tension between the installed pieces while playing with their disposition in space.

© Corinne Cuendet

The FLOE bench has been developed in the context of an order for the renovation of the Professional School of Chablais in Aigle under the direction of Christophe Rime, architect and project manager.

Manufactured in concrete, its dimensions and its weight make it an ideal piece of street furniture.
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Concept #1
It is a repair plan of the old warehouse in Tokyo.

A theme is the following.
1. Environment : avoid CO2 discharge called demolition and new building, and reuse the existing building.
2. Place nature : produce the design used as the core of the scene formation based on regionality.
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© concrete

SHORT STORY
Inspired by the graphic design story by Studio Lava for THNK, concrete designed a series of multifunctional furniture to contribute to the identity of the new creative business school.

Following THNK’s philosophy, “that it is never about ‘i’ alone and is always about ‘i’ in collaboration with others to solve todays challenges”, is translated ‘i’-shaped benches, worktables, stools and bar tables. The furniture elements overlap each other, coloured red, blue, white, black and are placed in the middle of the central space, shaping the THNK logo.
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