Casa Cubo by Isay Weinfeld

Casa Cubo, the initiative of a couple of art collectors, was conceived to house a lodging and support center to artists and the development of the arts, but with all necessary facilities to serve as a home. The program was solved within a cubic block, split vertically into three levels and a mezzanine, whose façades are treated graphically as a combination of lines defined by the cladding cement plaques, by the glass strip on the mezzanine, and the striped wood composition that changes as the bedroom windows are opened and closed.

The service nucleus is located at the front of the ground level, comprising a kitchen, a restroom, a dining room and an entrance hall giving way to the wide room with double ceiling height and polished concrete floor, intended to host events, exhibitions or even work as a lounge that opens onto the backyard.

The mezzanine of the lounge, standing on the slab topping the service nucleus on the ground floor, houses the library, which is marked by three strong elements: a shelving unit extending the whole back wall, a strip of fixed glass next to the floor and a spiral staircase covered in wood that leads to the private quarters upstairs.

Private quarters consist of 3 bedrooms and a living room thoroughly lit through a floor-to-ceiling opening. The garage and service areas are located in the basement.

 

 

 

 

Info and images © Isay Weinfeld

 

Casa Cubo by Isay Weinfeld

Javier Perez Instagram Experiments

Javier Perez uses his Instagram profile to experiment with interesting collages between drawings and actual objects. Folow him at cintascotch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images © Javier Perez on Behance

Javier Perez Instagram Experiments

+green Restaurant by Sinato

This organic restaurant on Jiyu Street by Sinato is only a short walk from Komazawa Olympic Park, one of the largest parks in Tokyo. The restaurant is on the ground floor of a three story apartment building and is a half level underground.

The restaurant has three basic functions: a takeout bistro, an organic food shop and a restaurant. The most distinctive feature of the premises lies in its floor level, which is 1.61m below the ground level of the entrance. This means that the interior ceiling height is 4.39m.

The starting point of the design was to study the arrangement of the three functions in such a volume. By placing the restaurant on the half underground floor, the takeout counter at the front entrance at ground level and the shop shifting diagonally away from the takeout counter, the designers could allow light into the restaurant area from the facade aperture above. The shop space is 0.56m higher than the takeout space as the kitchen fits beneath it.

There are three floor levels for each function, so people move up and down through the space. They created different walls in the upper and lower spaces, partitioning the space in different ways so that people can experience different circumstances and be curious about the other spaces.

In the upper space, a white wall hides the original wall and equipment like air conditioning systems  and piping. The wall also serves as a frame which emphasizes the graphics, plants or interior scenery of the restaurant. This wall surrounds the stairs and delineates a large void in the interior of the space. In the lower space, you can still sense the form of the white wall floating above your head, which is quite different from the plan of the restaurant floor which is partitioned by brick wall. The brick wall turns at a right angle many times, creating hall space on the inside. It also forms a private room, kitchen and storeroom on the outside between the brick wall and the original wall. The hall space is divided into three places but at the same time they connected. They distributed small plantings so that they would be visible from anywhere in the interior.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Info and images © Sinato

 

+green Restaurant by Sinato

Co-work Angel by Penson

PENSON has recently designed a modern office space -  Co-Work Angel – for the London-based Co-Work who offers entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses shared big corporation-like workspaces at the cost of a small office. To a white background, PENSON added vibrant colors like neon yellow and turquoise carpets combined with gray and black. The exposed ductwork is painted as well in yellow such as each bank of desks’ label number. Neutral colors are mixed in the scene in order to tone down the pops of color. The glass of the conference rooms’ doors is decorated with angel wings graphics to signal their presence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images © PENSON

 

Co-work Angel by Penson