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Dizzying Design: Deform House & Deformscape Backyard From Faulders Studio




Five years ago, architect Thomas Faulder was hired by Jeff Dauber to transform his Potrero Hills home into a living residence/art gallery space. The result was Faulder Studio's "Deform House".



The third-level addition, which was approximately 1,200 sq. ft., was constrained by existing structural walls and neighboring structures. With the need to maximize vertical wall surfaces for art, the design emphasized the ceiling plane with a pattern of optically shifting grooves.




Sheathing the entire top floor ceiling and rear wall, this lining unifies the spaces and is in contrast with the architectural neutrality of the smooth walls.




The entry gate, perfect for an Apple geek like Dauber, is perforated with a security warning written in binary code text:


The door as it appears at night:


But last year, the backyard got a new look as well. A dizzying plywood floor that transformed the 550 square foot backyard into a Tron-like illusory vortex.



Though the surface of the San Francisco backyard that Faulders created for Jeff, a senior Apple exec, appears to bend and dip toward the Japanese maple tree, it is actually a flat horizontal plane made up of individual plywood tiles.



The outdoor extension, called "deformscape" to the private dwelling is situated in the tightly packed urban neighborhood. The limited space outdoor sculpture garden inherits a large tree, and uses this sole arboreal presence to establish a gravitational pattern of grooves that are focused towards the tree's centroid.



What seem to be painted black lines are, in reality, gaps: the tiles sit atop industrial-fiberglass grating that allows rainwater to drain through to the tree’s roots.



To generate the resultant pattern, a 3-dimensional bulge is formed around the tree, and its distorted wire-grid projected onto a 2-dimensional surface. Taking into account appearance effects created by perspective views from inside, the resultant planar surface appears sink around the tree.






all images courtesy of Faulders Studio and a special thanks to Metropolis Magazine for some additional info.

About Thom Faulders:
Architect Thom Faulders, founder of Faulders Studio, creates client-based projects at a wide array of building scales, as well as hypothetical architectural proposals and speculative exhibitions that explore interfaces between space, perception, and context. The office situates the practice of architecture within a broader context of performative research and material investigations that negotiate dynamic relationships between users and environments.

In combination with practice, Thom Faulders is an Associate Professor in Architecture at CCA/California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He has previously taught at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, as Visiting Studio Critic at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and in numerous workshops addressing issues in contemporary architecture, including the CCA 333 Program and the SCI-Arc 2+2+2 Summer Graduate Program. He has been a design jury critic at many institutions, including UCLA, Penn Design, University of Toronto, Columbia, Cranbrook, Harvard, and SCI-Arc.

Visit the Faulder Studio site here.

Many of the wonderful photos in this post are courtesy of Theodor Rzad, see more of his beautiful architectural photography here: Images © DIGITED IMAGE COMPANY

PaperBoy Wallpaper: New, Fun and Fresh. And For Boys.




PaperBoy Interiors Ltd. will be launch these three wonderful wallpaper designs, Animal Magic, Hand Made and Dya-think-e-saurus, this coming September at the 'futures' section of the 100% Design Show in London. Specifically designed for boys' rooms, the patterns are fun, fresh, original and stylish and would certainly appeal to girls, adults, designers and artists as well.

Animal Magic:



Hand Made:



Dya-think-e-saurus:


Please note, because these have not been officially launched, colors and designs may change slightly by the time they hit the market.



PaperBoy Wallpaper
103 Upper Brockley Road
London
SE4 1TF
United Kingdom
02071939135

See What's Been Stirring At WOK






New versions of WOKmedia's ‘Made in China’ series of furniture.

The work, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer, is a result of their extended stay in China as part of a collaboration with Contrasts Gallery of Shanghai.

This series of work debuted at Design Miami last December.


They describe it as "Seemingly innocent children toys act as a kind of space invaders emerging from a world hidden inside our childhood memories. Specifically invading antique Chinese furniture, starting to threaten their traditional past."


and as "Revealing a surreal and terrifying landscape of derailed trains, drowning babies, crashing planes and wild dinosaurs."
 


The most recent additions to the above installation are the following :


Limited edition series of WOKmedia's ‘Made in China’ collection.
Each piece is unique, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer.

 above: ‘GRR’


above: ‘BOW-WOW’


above: ‘BOO-HOO’


above: ‘CLANK’

Who is WOKmedia?

Julie Mathias and Wolfgang Kaeppner established WOKmedia in 2004.
They are based in London with a production studio in Shanghai.

Wokmedia’s work is primarily concerned with the emotional dimension, an archetypal memory or a physical sensation. Often they survey a state of in between where chaos is showing structure and confusion is beginning to make sense. Where out of devastation and destruction emerges a new world. A world embedded in their childhood memories when emotions were not expected to be filtered, when make-believe was not equated with lunacy.

Julie Mathias
julie@wokmedia.com

Wolfgang Kaeppner
wok@wokmedia.com

London
Studio
WOKmedia
2 Leswin Place, Unit HQ
London N16 7NJ

Shanghai Production
WOKmedia
Rujin Road 500 (South)
Shanghai


Lucite & Stainless Steel Luxury Tub: The Rossovivo




I'm not sure if I like this tub or hate it, but admittedly it's an original design and certainly functional. I suppose if you had a modern loft or cement floors, it could be very cool and appropriate.




Rossovivo is made of Lucite IceTM, a semi-transparent material that is pleasant to the touch, available in Ice Red, Ice Blue and Ice White. The unusual and exclusive frame – that makes a definite statement – is in stainless steel.14 Airpool jets, that can be activated by the remote control, provide a gentle massage to the whole body and can be mixed, if desidered with ozone.
The inspection panel gives immediate access to the mechanical and hydraulic components beneath the tub. Two soft headrests in Technogel complete the equipment.

The tub is also available without hydromassage system.



1. Gentle, all-over massage with ozone
2. Ergonomic headrests Technogel
3. Remote control
4. Steel frames
5. Bathtub in Lucite™ transparent material
Read more about it here.

CA Boom 4: West Coast Independent Design Show


Exhibitor Reservations for CA Boom 4 Now Being Reviewed

CA Boom 4: March 30 to April 1, 2007 at a new and larger location, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Airport. One hundred plus participating exhibitors will showcase what's next in how we live and how we work. Specific areas in the show include: prefab, fine furnishings, indoor/outdoor living, surfaces and finishes, and modern parenting.

2/8/07 CA Boom 4: THE WEST COAST INDEPENDENT DESIGN SHOW registration and tickets now on sale.



What else is new this year?
Dozens of national and international manufacturers are joining CA Boom’s core lineup of boutique design exhibitors. CA Boom 4 majors and mini-majors include Herman Miller, ducduc, Fleetwood Windows & Doors, Neo Metro and Nana Wall Systems, Inc.

This year, our show floor is divided into distinct zones including Prefab, Fine Furnishings, Materials, Surfaces & Finishes, Modern Parenting, Giftware & Accessories, Indoor/Outdoor Living and First-Timers.


Special Prices on Santa Monica Hotels, Airfare & Airport Shuttles. Travel & Housing

For the first time, Friday will be a “trade day” from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., open to qualified design & building trade members.

The famous CA Boom Opening Night party moves to Friday Night, 7:30 - 10:30 p.m., with an open bar, DJ's and full access to the show floor ($45).

Don't miss the debut of the “Modern Parenting” zone, spotlighting sophisticated furniture and accessories for children of design-conscious parents. Participants include Scandinavian Child, Inc., ducduc, Elevate Home and Nurseryworks.


Returning this year is the overwhelmingly successful PREFAB ZONE, the only place on the planet where prospective buyers of Modernist Prefab can actually comparison shop prefab manufacturers who are ready and able to deliver product. Participants include Living Homes, Clever Homes, Marmol Radziner Prefab, Sander Architects, kitHAUS, and Alchemy's weeHouse.

Don't miss our Design + Architecture Tours, where architects actually give tours of 15 cutting edge projects, 5 per day ($75 per day, includes Expo Hall admission).

Santa Monica: Friday March 30th • Venice: Saturday March 31st • Mar Vista/West LA: Sunday April 1st.

CA Boom exhibitors are invited to participate because of their innovation, design sensibility and category leadership. Each year, we also invite a select group of noteworthy up-and-comers. Many of our exhibitors are showcasing World and North American debuts at the show.

CA Boom 4 still has space to accommodate a few additional exhibitors who are a good fit. Interested? Go here.

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