Architecture and interior design thread

Cheers not a great pic but it’s the “hues of green” version

Beautiful!

Picked up a pair of Mario Botta Quinta chairs and had this Herzog de Meuron Hocker delivered the next morning. 💆🏼

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https://www.sloweliving.com/

With build prices still crazy I’m surprised no architects are offering a more agile/iterative approach.

That’s my thought of the day.

agile/iterative sounds like marketers talk

i have that ligne roset, we managed to find it in the sale years ago.
Its wearing out a bit now, but sleep wise for an occasionnal bed for friends or marital disputes, it has proved pretty good.

Thanks, have got an eBay search saved.

Outdoor lighting: I’m looking for a simple fixture, like a Flos Glo Ball, but ideally something that avoids me feeling like a wanker spurting light pollution in all angles.

New? I bought the 60’s/70’s one baldingbudda was selling on here, found a place in Germany that did all the spare parts for not the ridiculous official U.K. prices, fitted a new cable and bulb holder.
Thought I was just ticking the style icon box but it’s a great looking lamp and ideal for when we finally get a proper dining table.
found a slightly different model in my local antiques place, price was a bit spicy...

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It’s called product design, look it up.

Glo ball with custom aluminium shield?

Budget and gumption for custom-alu-anything-else has waned somewhat...

so... not called architecture then

exactly, hence suggesting that methodology as an alternative.

Dont fall at the last hurdle, you got this champ.

I'm expecting you to source an early iteration of the sun direct from supplier with built in solar eclipse function.

I'm not sure you can apply agile methodology to physical buildings with expensive materials. Rolling back software is minimal cost, undoing a wall is labor and wasted material?

Yeah obvs not rolling stuff back but more stages. MVP could be base structure, final product would be decoration.

Sounds like shell and core which is already A Thing for commercial buildings.

https://www.archdaily.com/797779/half-a-house-builds-a-whole-community-elementals-controversial-social-housing
https://www.architectural-review.com/buildings/revisit-aranya-low-cost-housing-indore-balkrishna-doshi

:)

Interesting.

Yeah there wasn’t this tax on it a couple years ago, but I didn’t have a place to put it at that point.

Yes new but with a hefty discount. They’re lovely and radiate a really warm but not bright light. Perfect for a romantic dinner or having a read at the table

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Its defo got the instagram tax on that, having looked tonight

well that's ambitious, the idea is as old as modernism.
I wonder what architecture context you're referring to, small scale residential ?

I thought MVP had always been a thing in architecture. I know someone with an architecturally designed modular house so areas could be added as and when the need or money was found. The add ons were planned at concept and the building works are in place so that the next stages can be added without disrupting the structure already there. The massive window wall for instance will get moved out to new rear of the house on the pad that is already there, as are the ducts for electrics and the base of the walls. And at present there is a large floor to ceiling window that will become the doorway into the new upstairs bedroom as and when.
When me had the extension done on our last place we had the plumbing and drains etc located under the stairs for a bathroom move that can now be easily done if the new owners want to, we didn’t get round to it.
The discussions I’ve had with architects start with this is what I want, what is the minimum we can do to get it up so we can move forward later.

Yeah small scale residential.
I guess it’s about considering the bigger picture too, we knew we were changing the upstairs bathroom and planning a loft when we had our extension done so planned accordingly.

When the time came things were just plugged in.