Best of #May

Among the stories collected in May on Domusweb a house in a postwar German lingerie factory, a stable for the goats in Bavaria, stools that become display elements and the first impressions about the Venice Biennale.

Brandlhuber+ Emde, Schneider, Antivilla, Potsdam, Germania
From an innovative project that transformed a former German Democratic Republic lingerie factory into a resilient house to a visitor center that seems to emerge from the landscape, from which absorbs textures and colors; from a collection of doors that become containers and lamps to a stool used as an exhibition system: discover the 15 stories we chose for May.

Nendo, Seven doors: Nendo presented during Milan Design Week the new door collection Seven doors, developed for the Japanese wooden door manufacturer Abe Kogyo.

Carbon Wood Bike: a father and his son, combining craftsmanship and knowledge, old materials and new fibers, give shape to a lightweight and durable bike made of carbon fiber and wood.

The Cave in Pilares: into the Pilares ecological reserve, Mexico, Kenji López Rivera, founder of the Greenfield architectural practice, conceived a building that responds to the site with basic volumes that rise with materials from the region, gaining color and texture right from the landscape.

Less than 50 sqm: in less than 50 square meters Architects conceived a rational apartment, experimenting with new design solutions that turns connective spaces into functional areas.

Villa Mörtnäs: in the Stockholm archipelago Fourfoursixsix were commissioned by Strömma Projekt to design a family home that stood out from the vernacular.

Riva 1920. Projects and Passion: at the Salone del Mobile, the unstoppable flow of Riva 1920 designs carried you off into an approach to business that does not focus on, albeit pressing, financial and industrial dictates.

The wooden cube: taking the traditional Bavarian wooden houses as a starting point, Kühnlein Architektur designed a wooden goat barn integrating the free landscape around it.

FORM, Framing house: semi-outdoor passages, galleries, and habitable spaces follow each other creating a unique and continuous interior in this house designed in Shiga, Japan, by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects.

Housing in Portugal: an exhibition at the CCA documents the pioneering experiment that empowered architects and citizens to create housing with a place in the city.

Casa Vivian: clear shapes and vivid colors define the spaces of this house in Mexico, designed by Arqxioma to ensure maximum privacy, without compromising brightness and ventilation.

BNTHMCRWL, Paleisbrug: a 250 metre-long pedestrian link across the railway track between the historic centre of ’s-Hertogenbosch and Paleiskwartier, in The Netherlands, was the pretext for Benthem Crouwel Architects to create a suspended park-like area.

Antivilla: Brandlhuber+ Emde, Schneider transformed the Ernst Lück underwear factory – built in the 1960s in the southwest of Berlin – into a living and a studio with a new approach that incorporates a new concept of resilience.

Elie Metni, Starch Boutique: for this shop in Beirut Elie Metni developed a wood installation made of 70 identical wooden stools fitted together to form a new object used as a display for designers’ work.

My East is Your West: an exhibition unites for the first time at the Biennale the historically conflicting nations of India and Pakistan through the works of Shilpa Gupta and Rashid Rana.

All the World’s Futures: Okwui Enwezor, curator of the 56th venice Art Biennale, with his show outlines a proposal – that we should remaining vigilant and continue to probe in order to understand, identify the fundamentals and use them as the basis for our reasoning once more.

Top: Brandlhuber+ Emde, Schneider, Antivilla, Potsdam, Germany. Photo Erica Overmeer

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