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Project Ciao! Connects non-sufficient elderly residing at Italian nursing homes with their families and communities. The first aim is to keep them company, improving their quality of life and to stay connected with the “outside world” via interactive and live contents tailormade for them (e.g. “silver yoga” lessons, concerts, digital live tours trips and tours; maquillage lessons; theatrical pieces; art therapy sessions) and the second is help them preserving their cognitive capability.

Ronde de Nuit is a valet that proposes to live the moment of getting dressed as an idividual ritual. This meditative experience links the user, his second skin (clothes) and the quality of the materials, allowing Human to line up with himself.

To resist the uses of life, this valet shows up the balance between tenacity and natural solutions of manufacturing trought the material and the finish. Moreover, the repairability has been driven the project trought a local eco-design approach.
 

The main objetive of the restoration project of Aiestaran Baserria is to
convert a traditional Basque farmhouse "Baserria", whose origins date from
the 16th century, into a new cultural center and meeting point of the town
of Trapagaran, in Bizkaia, Spain.
In order to achieve this, a reinterpretation of the traditional functioning of
the baserria has been made; succedding in creating a self-sufficient building.

Design furniture that comes from the sea.

The wood we use to elaborate Frouma pieces comes from galician estuaries “bateas”. But, what is a “batea”?

It is a floating nursery compound by a wooden framework from where the mussel’s ropes hang.

After 25 years, Frouma gets the wood back from the sea to give it a total new use: be turned into a design furniture.

Discover our forest’s authenticity blended with the strength and nature from the sea.

It’s history, it’s sea, it’s Frouma

The City of Kiel wants to make its inner city more attractive. Therefore a
former busy street is transformed into an urban space which connects
through several water planes to the fjord. Planning was accompanied by
intensive citizen’s participation. The new space attracts people, has high
amenity and offers a nice sojourn, improves the microclimate and helps
cleaning the water. The course of the project recurs to a former moat
around the city core, thus strengthening the identity of the place.

Our project has been created to reactivate the path towards spaces and parts for the economy of solidarity, involving people, economic entities, institutions and organizations sensible to the themes of critical consumption and eco-friendly lifestyles. 

The imperfection of earth bricks is often understood as synonym of lowtech construction in deprived communities. With Digital Imperfection, we underline that earth is more than a vernacular material. The project links state-of-the-art approaches with local traditions by highlighting earth as a contemporary material.

We use technology to emphasize the collective experience and to create a shared understanding of building with community's hands and to find a new narrative for an old material.

Artificial forest for a choir of 20 000 singers is a venue for Latvian Nationwide Song and Dance Celebration which is a core cultural event in Latvia and is responsible for the development of national identity and unity. A unique building typology is designed specifically for large-scale acapella singing. The aesthetic and philosophical mythology of Silver Forest, rooted in ancient Baltic culture, learns from nature and sends the message of the possibility of an ecocentric and human world.

A project to rehabilitate industrial land which has fallen into disuse and to convert it into a habitable space to be lived in.

Will house 1,100 apartments,608 of which will be part of a subsidized housing project developed by the Public Administration,closely bonding residents to nature and to the restored natural waterway.

Stands out due its: high energy saving,high levels of acoustic and thermal comfort,excellent interior air quality and construction based on natural and healthy materials.

A space for all your lifes

Mellow is a living space that can be made fully autonomous in energy and water. The modular building is designed as an integral part of the circular economy in order to reduce its environmental impact as much as possible. Mellow is adapted to the changing pace of our lives. For each new change, you can reinvent your space. Like with LEGO®, you can make it bigger, smaller, adjust the shape to your project. Sky is the limit for the "Space inventors" we all are !