Drytech 3
Client: Droog Design Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Samira Boon with Maria Salinas Moltó, Eve Arpo, Agathe Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo Collaborator / associate: Studio Samira Boon Material: Chair: Fiberglass and nylon Spacer Fabric with polyester resin; Screen: cotton and elastic with poly Floor area / size: Chair: h=70, w = 62 Build engineer: Müller textiles; Polyproducts, Construction: Textilemuseum Tilburg Special thanks to: Prof. Beukers, TU Delft, Aerospace faculty,Hybrids + Fusion, First design: 2007-10-15 Completion: September 2007
2007-10-29 Open talk at 2007-09-14 DRYTECH NEW PRODUCTS AND EXHIBITION
In the context of ‘Drytech 3’, NEXT architects, in collaboration with Studio Samira Boon, manufactured two products, a chair and a folding screen. Both products are the result of a technologically innovative use of materials, which is a condition for the “Drytech” project series organized by Droog Design.
For the chair, we used a double weaving technique used in carpet production: two carpets are woven together and cut loose afterwards to create a velour side. This inspired us to design a chair along the same lines: two pieces of fabric are partly interwoven and partly cut loose. Cutting the fabric turns a two-dimensional cloth into a three-dimensional object.
The chair derives its strength form both the double fabric and the curves: hardening so-called ‘three-dimensional’ fabrics by means of resins gives them constructive qualities.
The folding screen is a continuation of Samira Boon’s research into 3D weaving techniques, for instance by using waffle patterns. Using a combination of 3D waffle structures and resin reinforcement makes the load-bearing structure and the screen melt into one, thus creating a super light and exceptionally rigid screen.
The 3D relief also has an acoustic function. The transparency of the material causes the structure to change whenever the light incidence changes. The screens are zipped up, with the zippers attached to parts of the fabric that are not reinforced. This way, the fabric can even be used as a hinge.
Slow Glow formally known as FAT lamp
Client: Droog Design Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water , Aura Luz Melis with Marrit de Jong Collaborator / associate: Aura Luz Melis Material: Glass, vegetable fat, cork, 25W/G9 bulb Floor area / size: 16 x 31 cm Cost: Euro 415,00 Photographer: NEXT architects First design: 2007-07-20 Status: For sale
NEXT architects designed the FAT Lamp for the Droog presentation ‘Go Slow’ during the Salone del Mobile Milano 2004. Formerly known as FAT Lamp, this product is now for sale under the name ‘Slow Glow’.
The 12th presentation of Droog Design in Milan was based on the concept of going slowly. Within an entirely white environment, visitors could enjoy a moment of rest amid the hustle and bustle of the furniture fair. Slowness as a quality was the focus. In accordance with the theme, NEXT architects developed a slow product - the FAT lamp - together with Aura Luz Melis.
The light source is immersed in fat. As the heat from the lighting element slowly melts the fat, an intriguing process gradually unfolds. The light glows brighter and brighter and the lamp becomes warmer and warmer in a comforting way. This process takes about 2 hours. After turning it off the fat returns to its original solid state.
Artoteek
Type: Interior design and furniture Location: Denneweg 25, The Hague Client: Artoteek Den Haag Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Ica van Tongeren, Joost Lemmens Collaborator / associate: Architectencombinatie Bos Rosdorff Wiebing Carpenter: Morowood First design: 2004-09-01 Status: Completed
For the Artoteek in Den Haag, renovated by Bos Rosdorff Wiebing architects, NEXT architects developed the interior design and a series of furniture including working desks and a reading table.
The design concept of the furniture has been based on an array of parallel plywood slats; the shape of the slats has been adapted for various functions such as the storage of a painting, the support of a computer and the storage of magazines.
Invited by NEXT architects, designer Ica van Tongeren developed a special tile for the restroom of the Artoteek, which is housed in a historic building.
Based on the existing Delft Blue toilet and washbasin she used the coat of arms of The Hague - a stork with an eel in its beak- as the motif in the design of the tiles. By adjusting the scale of the storks she created a sense of space in the relatively small restroom. The images have been transferred to the tiles using a special glazing process through which the images are permanently rendered onto the tiles.
Ready Made
Type: Bookcase Client: Droog Design Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Waterwith Shaya Fallahi, Mattias Zuchetti Contractor: Morowood Photographer: NEXT architects First design: 2003-01-15 Status: Presented at furniture fair Milan by Droog Design
2004-11-01 International Design Yearbook
More than any other object, a filled bookcase reflects the identity of its owner.
At the moment of purchase this Ready Made reflects the collective intellect of centuries of literature: the Top 100 of all time, everything you ought to have read – but never got around to.
Filling the case means replacing classics by a personal selection. Great works become bookends to personal favourites.
Me, Myself and You
Type: prototypes: Spy hole door, Keyhole door, Table tennis fence, Share fence, Client: Droog Design Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Material: metal, PVC, various Cost: not for sale Carpenter: Frank Hoogveld; Morowood First design: 2001-01-14 Completion: November 2000
New types of contact exceed physical boundaries. Neither the relation between the public and private nor the transitional area in between is unambiguously manifest. Oddly enough, the elements that make up this boundary have hardly been cultivated. We studied the conceptual possibilities of this boundary and listed them in a catalogue of doors (boundaries between private and public) and fences (boundaries between private and private). The pursuit of forced social interaction between people was not an objective here. A meaningful experience of the boundary, however, was. The project resulted in a number of prototypes, such as a fence that may also be used as a Ping-Pong table and a fence in which holes are punched, shaped like articles one may share with one’s neighbours.
