A house turns its back on the road to open up to the landscape
The single-family house project designed by Elena Gianesini engages in a dialogue with the Vicenza landscape, combining tranquility and contemporary style through essential geometries and the Mazzonetto metal roofing.
Invited by the Textiel Museum to work with their collection for the exhibition Turkish Red & More, Minale-Maeda's interest was sparked by the multitude of patterns in the fabrics of the collection and how they come to be through the repetition of same motives. A parallel emerged to the repetition of motives with slight differences in the experiments of Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneer of moving images, who did studies of movement over time by taking pictures of moving things in short succession. Each frame was slightly different than the one before and their rapid succession would create the illusion of movement.
The comparative simplicity but stunning effect of both techniques, patterns and a sequence of slightly different images, proved fascinating. With contemporary digitally assisted weaving and printing, patterns do not need to repeat over a whole roll of fabric in small segments but can change over the whole length. So why not make the patterns change similarly to images put in sequence and create an animation in the fabric, expanding the narrative quality of patterns and breaking up the monotonous part of the repetition, without going out of pattern.
Video: Robert Adriessen
The idea was developed into a showpiece for the collection, a round bench upholstered with a fabric with a collage of subtly changing and moving patterns from the museum collection, from narrative to abstract and from renaissance damask to art noveau, from leaves swaying in the wind to abstract patterns de- and recomposing. Each layered element tries to respect the weaving or printing techniques of each pattern.
Design and concept: Studio Minale-Maeda
Photos: Tommy Fotografie
Video "Turkish red": Robert Adriessen
Project development: Kuniko Maeda, Mario Minale, Jin-Sik Kim, Selma Durand, Beatrice Ranai
Turkish Red & More
Tilburg Textile Museum
Goirkestraat 96, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Marble matters– exploring Carrara’s legacy
Sixteen young international architects took part in two intensive training days in Carrara, organized by FUM Academy and YACademy, featuring visits to the marble quarries and a design workshop focused on the use of the material.