Best of #January

Five ways of living in the world, three projects of food design and a suggestion for an exhibition to visit in the weekend among the stories of the Best of #January.

Bureau A, Spiruline Fountain, Parc des Evaux, Confignon, Geneva. Photo © Dylan Perrenoud
Among the stories published on Domus Web in January five residential projects and a phototessay tell the different ways of living in the world, while other stories recount innovative projects of food design and...food architecture. Here is our Best of, with a suggestion for an exhibition to visit during the weekend.


Compact Karst House: Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti redefined the model of a traditional stony Karst house transforming it into a compact, stony, pitched roof volume for contemporary countryside living in this region.

E/C House: nominated for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2015, this holiday house in the Azores has been modeled by Sami Arquitectos inside the forms of the existing ruin, offering the most diverse complex possibilities of living than the former typology.

Nendo, Chocolatexture: in a limited-time-only chocolate lounge conceived for the awarding ceremony of “Designer of the Year Maison&Objet 2015”, Nendo presents its new chocolate concept.

Castle Rock Beach House: specifically conceived by Herbst Architects for the summer months, this house on the Whangarei Heads, New Zealand, feels like a light, wooden, living pavilion.

Haus Hohlen: to increase the amount of space and renew the facade of this house built in the 60s on a hill above Dornbirn, in Austria, Jochen Specht constructs a new building envelope at a certain distance around the old house, using a large amount of glass.

Edible Growth: with Edible Growth Chloé Rutzerveld developed an example of a future food product, 3D printing multiple layers containing an edible breeding ground, seeds, spores and yeast.

New Cairo: Manuel Alvarez Diestro’s New Cairo is a project born observing for five years the disastrous ecological and social consequences of the conquest of the desert by new housing estates near the Egyptian metropolis of Cairo.

Spiruline Fountain: quoting the water cascades of the Villa  Aldobrandini, Bureau A installed a garden folly – that is also a spirulina production centre – in a birch forest located in a public park of Geneva.

Reinier de Jong, Stip table: Reinier de Jong releases a compact and modest dining table, made out of plywood and thicker handrails, designed to match with the Steel folding chair made from tool handles.

tour – Retour: more than 30 years on, the key Scandinavian conceptual-art project Prosjekt Gjerdeløa (Project Gjerdeløa) by Marianne Heske is being shown to the public again in the Collection rooms of Oslo’s new museum.

 

Top: Bureau A, Spiruline Fountain, Parc des Evaux, Confignon, Geneva. Photo © Dylan Perrenoud

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