The name of nature café La Porte is the clue to sustainability. The door (”porte” in French) is heavy and the extra energy you put in to open it, is contained for lighting. That’s all that’s visible. Architectural office RAU did not use coco or cork and that’s good. It shows sustainable design is accepted as a given thing and does not have to be flaunted.
Grandma’s oak cabinet. You love her, but hate the design. St. Joost academy in Breda graduate Ruud van Hemert makes precious wood into a new personal building material. Replex shows the old form in an new layered multiplex. Here’s a download of my article on him. We have an new and better Piet Hein Eek.
During the last ice-age CO2 levels were 10 times higher than now. Thus, Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark says, there is no connection between CO2 and global warming. So most of our measures don’t mean a thing. The warming is just a matter of spring. Before you buy a Hummer, natural resources like gas and oil will come to a stop. Then we’ld better be ready to move on.
The art gallery from (very) small town Heusden called Priveekollektie made it through the selection for Design Miami, which starts December 3rd. Have an eye out for the following Dutch Designers: Pieke Bergmans, Reinier Bosch, Hans Kotter, Kranen/Gille, Alexander Pelikan, Wouter Scheublin, Roderick Vos en BCXSY. They’ll have new mindblowing work ready for Miami.
Eco design lacks culture, says David Trubridge. A cultural designer should design ways of living that enable us to live a sustainble life. So that we bond with our products, use stuff we’re proud of. Copy techniques and creativity from your ancestors. Copyright should be abolished. He’s publishing the “how-to” of the wooden lamps that showcased the Paris Printemps window.
Gum on the pavement, gum on your shoesole. That’s why Schiphol Airport stopped selling chewing gum. Designer Anna Bullus sees advantages. She makes Gumnetic, made of sterilised chewed gum and bioresin. Her Chewy Pad is a pillow that acts like memory foam. How to harvest the material? Check out her Bubble Gum Bin.
75 floating villa’s with a walkway and sauna center, is what concept developer Studio Noach asked architect Anne Holtrop to design. Theit Floating Gardens use Rexwall, a building material made of EPS from coffee cups and hamburger packaging. Plants and flowers can overgrow these walls and roofs, simular to the vertical garden of Musee du Quai Branly.
Even with the curtains closed, the moon will let it’s light shine in. Cabinet Full Moon will shine for 8 hours thanks to the illuminating paint. Designer Sotirios Papadopoulos made 24 (like hours in a day) pieces of it. Although the paint looks very chemical it is Ecolightinside, which should mean it doesn’t harm ecology. I can’t find anything on ELI, unfortunately. Houston, we have storage!
Dutch-Danish architecture firm Powerhouse won a Dutch Design Award for the interior, and an AM/NAi prize for the architecture of Villa 1. Next villa to sprout from their hands, in collaboration with RAU is Villa L. ‘Sustainable yet chique,’ says Nanne de Ru. The giant family home exists of three totally different layers. As evolving as family life itself.
An inflatable shell to crawl in, an explosive to express your anger, peacock feathers for the one you love. Design Academy graduate Grietje Schepers made colourfull and technical fashion. In the film ‘Proud as a Peacock’ she shows how her objects can help people to show their emotions in a physical way, just like animals do. More graduates waiting to be downloaded here.
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