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Nature Meets Architecture: Great Integrated Green Interiors

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT

[ Filed under Green Homes & in the Architecture category ]

Some houses are all about the interior … others the exterior … this one walks a beautifully wide line between extremes, dealing with indoor and outdoor spaces as part of an interactive and permeable whole.

Multi-story plants climb toward organically-chaotic skylights, cozying up to upper-story walkways along the way. Meanwhile, tree trunks drop through the ground floor and come to rest on interior rock-and-pebble gardens.

Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld crafted this home in Sao Paulo with both existing and invented landscapes in mind, from ivy climbing the walls to much much more.

Even where greenery does not come directly into the dwelling, there are beautiful points of intersection and places where nature is framed explicitly by large expanses of open or glazed void.

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Sliced & Spliced: Pair of Sofas Slide to Form Circular Bed

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Transforming & in the Furniture category ]

Most conventional fold-out beds present all kinds of potential points of failure, often via complex mechanisms only a professional would be qualified to fix.

This solution is about as simple and non-technical as it gets: two semi-circular couches that come together to make a single guest bed.

Hiding in plain site, The Scoop! by Guido Rosati (for Saba Italia) hides in plain site, configured in whatever pattern fits your ordinary living room layout before it slides to form a well-rounded sleeping platform.