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Split Personality: Home Accommodates Living and Working

Posted: 04 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

living and working house

Working and living in the same space can be daunting, particularly if the different zones are not well defined. This home in Saalfelden, Austria by architects Ma hoRe perfectly separates the working and living spaces of a physical therapist.

muk house in austria

exterior muk house austria

The physical therapist’s office is located on the ground floor of the home, keeping the space open, bright and airy. The residents’ sense of privacy is protected in the two upper floors where the home’s private areas are located.

separated working and living space muk house

The two parts of the home are distinctly different, with concrete defining the public office area. High-pressure laminate panels define the upper living spaces of the dwelling.

muk house exterior rooftop garden and carport

The upper part of the home is slightly recessed, creating a ledge on which a rooftop garden grows. This ledge continues along two entire sides of the house, creating a carport at its very end.

floating staircase

light filled physical therapist home and office

Inside, the home includes a gorgeous floating staircase that becomes part of the defining shape of the living space. Walls of glass keep the interior sunny and bright, providing a comfortable escape from the workday as the office is left behind below.


    

Out of Closets? Leaning Rack Hangs Clothes in Small Spaces

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 08:00 PM PST

wall rack storage

For those with less space and who don’t mind airing their (clean) laundry a bit, this simple storage system lets you hang your clothes in spaces without sufficient closet area.

wall rack parts

“Woodstock is a lightweight and mobile furniture collection. Inspired by the principle of tent poles, the pieces can easily be assembled. The modular system combines wooden sticks and copper connection parts.” All of this also packs into a travel bag.

wall rack sizes

wall

Jeroenvan Leurnl makes these leaning racks in three simple sizes (large, medium and small) and uses a simple and repetitive set of constituent parts that highlight connections while remaining mostly minimal.


    

Scanned & Scaled: Full-Size 3D-Printed Dollhouse Furniture

Posted: 03 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST

3d large

We take the quirks of small-scale design, craft and construction in stride when looking at miniatures or models, but they change in more than just scale when sized up to a 1:1 ratio with human users.

3d printed originals

For her thesis project at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Silva Lovasová (images by Peter Sit) took dollhouse furniture and other little objects, scanned them in three dimensions and printed them out large … or normal, relative to people.

3d printed doll furniture

The results show off both the oddities of the original designs and manufacturing processes as well as the accidents and byproducts of large-scale printing methods.

3d printed large scale

It all comes together to tell hybrid tale as the objects reveal both the story of their (original and final) absolute size and of their shift in scale at the same time.


    

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