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06.09
// proSolve370e
tiles, as exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2008, are currently exhibited
at DMY Allstars 2009. June 3rd-7th.// www.dmy-berlin.com
See photos of the exhibit here.
// ee will be taking
part in the DMY Symposium, presenting work, and participating in the panel
discussion on Design and Public Space. June 6th.//
www.dmy-berlin.com/festival/2009/symposium
04.09
// ee presents
a new installation: "all the surprises of luxury, miracles of
confectionery, the most tempting dainties, and choicest delicacies"
and lecture entitled "Microtopias" opening April 29th,
designtransfer, Universität der Künste Berlin.// www.designtransfer.udk-berlin.de
12.08
// "Updating
Germany: Projects for a Better Future", the German Pavilion
entry for the 2008 Venice Biennale, is currently on exhibit at the Deutsches
Architektur Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt, 6 Dec 2008- 22 Feb 2009.// www.updating-germany.de
10.08
// proSolve370e
tiles are currently traveling with DMYAsia
Tour 2008:18 Berlin Designers, which exhibits at the Taiwan Design
Expo, Creative Taiwan (Taipei), Designtide Tokyo, and the Seoul Design
Festival.// www.dmy-berlin.com
09.08
// ee's second
prototype of the proSolve370e depolluting tiles is currently exhibited
at the 11th
Architecture Biennale Venice, as part
of "Updating
Germany: Projects for a Better Future" in the German Pavilion.
See photos of the exhibit here.
// the project has also
been recently published in "Updating Germany:100 Projects for
a Better Future"
05.08
// ee's "crystalline
clouds" are published in the book W
(Is for Warsaw)_Synchronicity: No Hear, No see
02.08
// ee is featured
in "Design
Now!" edited by Charlotte and Peter Fiell, recently released
by Taschen.
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elegant embellishments ltd./
axel-springer strasse 39
10969 berlin
germany
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are
designers, established in 2006 to investigate new materials and methods
for the quick modification of existing buildings and spaces. These modifications
are used to “tune” buildings, converting previously inert
surfaces into active surfaces that can meet new architectural criteria.
Our first functioning product, proSolve370e, is an example of our interest
in new, complex topographies for smart surfaces. We seek new processes
that can transcend the current reliance on tooling, and derive new forms
for innovative technologies that occur on a molecular level, yet are significant
enough to transform spaces.
elegant embellishments is a design bureau, interested
in systems that respond to a new set of invisible criteria for physical
space. Our 'prototypes for building' act as catalysts for the re-interpretation
of architectural spaces.
elegant embellishments is Daniel Schwaag and Allison Dring.
(watermelon photo courtesy Yung Cohn)
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is a decorative, three-dimensional architectural tile that can be installed quickly to reduce air pollution in urban environments. The tiles provide councils, developers, and designers with the ability to rapidly improve urban environments in terms of air quality and visual appeal.
ee's tiles respond to the priorities set by the EU Clean Air Strategy 2005; the policy will reduce pollution deaths by over 100 000, and air pollution related damages by up to 45 billion Euros annually. Emissions from combustion engines are identified as the largest contributor to air pollution in cities and often invisibly affect our breathable air. The tiles, when positioned near pollutant sources, can re-appropriate these polluted spaces for safe pedestrian use.
Using computer based manufacturing techniques, the forms are specifically generated to increase the effect of the underlying technology while also creating visually striking installations that highlight the problems of air pollution and its possible solutions.
The preferred territories for such modifications are the standardized, repetitive surfaces of modernism, housing estates, traffic spaces, etc, which often fail to inspire a sense of ownership in citizens and deny individual expression in a homogenous, standardized world. LINK top
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“all the surprises of luxury, miracles of confectionery,the most tempting dainties, and choicest delicacies” (Balzac)
A series of spatial alterations that erase or obscure
the existing lines of the interior. The pieces occur in joint conditions
(ceiling corner, column corner, wall mosaic) which are typically intended
to express the separation of materials/surfaces, as favored by traditions
of rational construction (tectonics).
For the sake of effect, the pieces “white out” existing lines,
superimposing new, decorative paths- treating hard architectural edges
as “suture” lines (Semper) which wander between surfaces without
reason. Vestiges of former heavily ornamented interiors, they are subtle
modifications to lines in spaces we typically encounter, but don't necessarily
see.
Exhibited at designtransfer, Universität der Künste Berlin. LINK top
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"Synchronicity 1: No hear No see"
A project for the future of Warsaw using ignorance
of the city as a starting point.
Crystalline Clouds
These clouds are composed of a swarm of crystalline structures; they are
coated in photocatalytic titanium dioxide, creating a complex set of surfaces
that respond to ambient daylight. The clouds effectively absorb and neutralise
nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the leading
contributors to low-lying smog in cities. The substrate is grown, rather
than assembled, using minimal material.
Floating in the smog layer above the city's main traffic ways, the clouds
are photo-sensitive sponges. They are tethered to the ground via stainless
steel poles, and move freely with the wind. Once released over traffic
ways, the nebulae are transparent and subtle in the atmosphere, appearing
and receding from view. LINK
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a new prototype
of proSolve370e, as exhibited at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition,
Venice Biennale 2008.
proSolve370e is featured in “Updating Germany: Projects for a Better
Future”, an exhibition at the German Pavilion curated by commissioners
Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger (Raumtakik, Berlin).
The show presents research projects, design experiments and pilot projects
that explore sustainability beyond green building, corresponding with
Director Aaron Betsky's overall theme for the Biennale: “Out There:
Architecture Beyond Building”.
The prototype is composed of approximately 55 photocatalytic tiles, to
form a 10m2 suspended screen. The tiles are produced at 40% of their intended
size, indicating their primary use: as a building facade element.
See more photos of the exhibit here.
And here, for a downloadable
press release.
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On a sunny day, the building skin is skeletal, the tower's innards are exposed: thin tubes of vertical lifts and sound channels, connecting the upper platforms with the ground level.
On a cloudy day, the balloons inflate, composing a pillowy skin, protecting the interior from heavy winds.
On typical days in between, the sensors respond to the micro-climate in various points around the tower, opening patches with clear views, and insulating patches for protection.
The project attempts to relate the vertical change in temperature through the architecture, assuming that the building cannot respond uniformly to the differences in environment occuring from ground to sky.
The particular design of the weather-balloon facade becomes a new building prototype, suggesting the situational nature of insulation systems. LINK top
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"the beautiful is part of the biological"....residue is telling us something....are we tuned to invisible forces?.... rooms and spaces are all lines, stitched planes, and we don't see them anyway....
we launch, ....into the extreme strata, and what we encounter up there is meaningful, intimately linked, with down here. a machine-made microclimatic link? motion, if there is a universal reference to which everything moves, is absolute....
on the housing estate, a violent territory, we imagine objects that are defenseless, can be kicked and broken, are fragile in a hostile environment. once collapsed, instead of defunction, a product death, they transform, change state, produce a garden beneath them. ........dream instead of the production of architecture as if it were the production of a pen. we're thinking Bic....... LINK top
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venice
biennale 2008
sigma kalon (PPG)
raumtakik
BZT
designtransfer:
universitat der kunste - berlin
millennium chem
3Dsystems
momentum engineering
designmai
(DMY)
london biennale
100%
detail
the bartlett
arup
R&Sie(n)...
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Detail
5/2009, Materials and Finishes, may 2009
Surface, Spring Issue, april 2009
"Neue
Tapeten für Tokios Szene", Magazin Deutschland, feb 2009
"Updating
Germany: Projects for Better Future", catalog for the German Pavilion,
Venice Biennale. Matthias Boettger, Friedrich von Borries, sept 2008
popular science magazine, oct 2008
"W (is for warsaw):
no Hear, no See" Jakub Szczesny, Fundacja Bec Zmiana, dec 2007
green magazine- issue 4,
march-may 2008
"design
now!" Fiell, Charlotte & Peter, ed. taschen publications, nov
2007
pasajes de architectura y critica- 2007,vol.9
hise magazine- issue 39, 2007
gulf interiors, march 2007
domus
magazine 898 - december 2006
AJ specification - november 2006
bldg
blog
we
make money not art
dwell magazine - october 2006
world changing
tree
hugger
future
feeder
the economic times
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available on request.
