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House as Landscape: Beach Retreat Both Blends & Blooms

Posted: 04 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

It is perhaps easy to make a house fit a landscape when there is a compelling landscape to respond to – but what of a beachfront property that makes it hard to respond to nature or keep a low profile?

BKK of Melbourne spent a good deal of time going back and forth between interior and exterior considerations, creating a beach retreat blending privacy and views, but also making something that seemed appropriate to its place.

The result feels organic and grown rather than singular and assembled – a series of masonry and metal ramps and offshoots that spring up out of the site like ancient mud architecture or a modern anthill.

While it is expressive on the outside, it is also cozy inside – a series of more personal-scale, fewer-windowed rooms that respond to functional needs, with larger openings rising toward the water.

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What Doesn’t Break this Metal Furniture Makes it Stronger

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 04:00 PM PST

Some materials have a fascinating property of changing properties when deformed – some become brittle, but others become solid and fixed in place. This fabulous series of ideas plays on the latter type.

Imagine laser-cutting metal tables, then (by hand) expanding those flat surfaces to solid three-dimensional furniture objects that not only stay in place but can support plenty of weight as well.

E27 is just getting started, but already their award-winning works in progress are already quite refined – they are elegant, complex, curved pieces that show their origins and physical evolutions. First tables, then coat wracks – who knows what is next? The sky may or may not be the limit, depending on how far this metal can stretch!