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Treasure Island

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Abstract landscapes changing over time by objects that come and go. Experience the delicate sensation of shaping and capturing traces in time. Everyday compositions emerge, until a reset handle wipes the slate clean and allows a fresh start.

USAGE AND EXPERIENCE

The combination of materials and the working of the mechanism make the interaction with this furniture a unique experience. It’s about an unusual relaxing sensory experience, leaving traces or messages, and the playfulness of creating imaginary landscapes, knowing that your creation will soon be reshaped by another. The piece is always in development and can be reset any moment in time, an intriguing cycle of continuous development.

MECHANISM AND DIFFUSE LIGHT

The furniture piece holds a custom made translucent cylinder shaped device, designed to interact with the movable surface, operated manually through a handle. The cylinder is placed amidst the wooden sticks, allowing the landscape to be fixated and relaxed by moving the handle’s position. The cylinder carries a light source, covered by a beautiful white porcelain translucent matte disk.

Urban flow

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The movement patterns of people and the patterns of spontaneous growth of plants show a remarkable resemblance. For both, their expansion and flow are subjected to urban space and planning, with the architecture acting like a vessel for people and plants to move through.

Noëlle Mulder has studied spontaneous urban vegetation by researching Gilles Clément and the New Perennial Movement, and applied their principles of design to urban landscapes. Her work brings out the contrast between the planned and the spontaneous, between structure and chaos. In front of The Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Noëlle has created a circle of wild flowers seeded in the splits between the pavement tiles and in the same grid-like pattern where there are no tiles. The grid performs a framework to expose how the public responds to the flowers as they emerge, and, in turn, how this response influences the vegetation, thus creating an interplay between movement and growth. Contrasts become visible, and people’s flow becomes apparent in a vulnerable grid of wild flowers.

As the seeding and gardening for this project progressed, assistance came from many unexpected sources – neighbours, bypassers, those who became interested through word of mouth – turning the effort into a social project that made people aware of the process of growth and of their own involvement. Filmed from above, the process of creation over a 3-week-period is exhibited. The accompanying conceptual drawings reflect Noëlle’s research of movements and growth, and visualize how public space can be softened and ‘fertilized’ through this combination of seeding and plotting people’s traces. A unique choreography of urban space is set and continues beyond this point.

Le Pilon

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An alternative mortar (vessel & pestle) to be used for crushing spices and cooking ingredients. Products can be grinded and mixed. Made of two pieces, it can be used with either both hands or with one hand by turning and holding the base on the table. An easy, compact, curious, food-hygienic object for on the kitchen blade.

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Cluster Cocoon

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The Cluster Cocoon has potential as an appealing product for children and parents. The playfulness of spaces within spaces and the possibilities of creating multiple variations within these spaces, routings and compositions by children stimulates creativity with this natural organic looking cluster. A playing object that looks nice at the same time. A lamp can placed inside, radiating warm light with playful shadow effects. As for the design, a play of light is achieved through the semi–transparency of the structure in multiple directions (outside-inside) of the felt material by the regular openings that change by moving. The rhythm of the structure follows the movement. The 3 Cocoons fit logically into each other, and by layering them, darker areas are created through the variations of light penetration.

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Flow Lloyd

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INTEGRATION THROUGH FLUENCY

The Lloyds Hotel stands as an architectural statue in its surroundings, solid and isolated. At the same time it is culturally, economicatlly and socially integrated with the environment. The flow of people passing by and through the Lloyd Hotel, the connection between the outside and inside are the starting point to study the flow as the merging element of two worlds: the Lloyd hotel and its surroundings.

LLOYDS PARTITION

The flow is registered with observational drawings from two different perspectives, outside and inside. The movements of people passing by and through (visitors, employees, neighbors) are captured during 12 intervals of 20 minutes, during day and night over 6 weeks. This then becomes a set of drawings with a certain language forming a unique choreograph, specific for that moment in the Lloyd area. The lines and dots visualize the rhythm, the intensity of the movements coming through the Lloyd statue, as if the whole forms a partition of the movements. After overlaying the different drawings and analyzing the flow, multiple areas of high density emerge. A revealing and beautiful process.

INTERVENTION: PROVOKING NEW AWARENESS BY PARTICIPATING

Inviting the Lloyds public to participate by sketching their own flow 1:1, in real scale provoked new awareness throughout their movements. On 13 dec 2010, a flow performance was held, visualized by traces and lines of wool, from bunches of wool carried along by the participants.

 

ONE TO ONE FLOW SKETCH

Together a unique choreograph, specific to that moment, is created. The whole of traces forms an extract of the flow, showing the merging movements of the inside and outside, and the intensity of used space into the void. The articulations of the flow create a unique setting in space: they fluently appear, revealed by the Lloyd public itself.
Be aware of your unique movements, how fluent is it? What is your flow about, does it flow freely? Follow your rhythm, resonate, enjoy it!

see more:  http://slowlloyd.slowlab.net/FLOW-LLOYD-1

Brick

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With one concrete brick (23cm x 35cm) 17 different variations of walls can be composed. Each of the walls have a unique motif and offer different qualities by the organization of their openings and play of light and shadow. The form is designed in such a way that the industrial produced brick structure becomes the construction. Multiple use for outside projects: urban context, public park, private garden, roof terrasses, as well as interior projects: walls, room-dividers, bathrooms.

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