The value of solidity
Riva1920 creates solid wood furniture using certified or reclaimed materials, combining sustainability, high-quality craftsmanship, and timeless design. An Italian excellence focused on durability, transparency, and authenticity.
Mécanique Céleste is the project of a new entrance for the University of Engineering and Management of Canton Vaud in Switzerland. A&F Architectes intervene on the campus with a structure-sculpture easily identifiable from the outside and to which the terraces of heig-vd are connected through new paths.
The architectural construction is based on a geometrical concept: the circle in which the courtyard of the Aula was inscribed — the space alongside the new extension — has been moved and has subsequently created a new space, the external foyer, and a new curved wall built in concrete, in continuity with the existing structure.
Propped by caissons recalling the interior of the Pantheon dome in Rome, this 9-meters-high structure offers an optical illusion effect, the anamorphosis, when observed from the access door. The blue colour used in the space becomes a disk inscribed in a square, bringing the architecture to a two-dimensional level.
- Project:
- Mécanique Céleste
- Location:
- Route De Cheseaux - Yverdon-Les-Bains - Swiss
- Program:
- Entrance, foyer, meeting space
- Architects:
- A&F Architectes (Aouabed & Figuccio)
- Artist:
- Delphine Renault, Paris
- Structural engineers:
- Aurelio Muttoni & Miguel Fernandez, Écublens - Swiss
- Construction company:
- Dentan Frères SA, Lausanne - Swiss
- Client:
- État de Vaud - SIPaL - Swiss state
- Completion:
- 2019
Design and ceramics renew a shopping center
FMG Fabbrica Marmi and architect Paolo Gianfrancesco, of THG Arkitektar Studio, have designed the restyling of the third floor of Reykjavik's largest shopping center. Ceramic, the central element of the project, covers floors, walls and furniture with versatile solutions and distinctive character.