BUILD by BUREAU A. Building interiors
30/07/2014.
[Geneva] Switzerland
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
BUILD is the latest project by BUREAU A. How would you intervene in such a complicated space? How would you dialogue with the organic pieces of the building?
BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © Regis Golay.
BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © Regis Golay.
Performance with Socuts. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © Regis Golay.
Performance with Socuts. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © Regis Golay.
Performance with Socuts. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © Regis Golay.
Performance with Socuts. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © Regis Golay.
Performance with Socuts. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © Regis Golay.
Office use. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © BUREAU A. Click above to see larger image.
Office use. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © BUREAU A. Click above to see larger image.
Office use. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © BUREAU A. Click above to see larger image.
Office use. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © BUREAU A. Click above to see larger image.
Axonometric drawing. BUILD by BUREAU A. Click above to see larger image.
Overview, drawing. BUILD by BUREAU A. Click above to see larger image.
Office use. BUILD by BUREAU A. Photography © BUREAU A. Click above to see larger image.
The solution proposed by Bureau A was to make a strong design, yet simple. A repetitive, intelligent and very neutral structure.
Description of the project by BUREAU A
BUILD is a structure, a piece furniture, a bleacher, a giant desk, a library, a gallery, a living room, an auditorium, an architecture. BUILD is cheap wood simply bolted and concrete prefab garden slabs. BUILD is a repetitive module able to grow and fill the whole space of the studio.
BUILD was constructed to resist the strangeness of the context; the interior of a well-known 1980’s building in Geneva, which is anything but neutral. The architecture of the existing edifice follows poorly the formal ideas of Hundertwasser. BUILD resists through abstraction, through functional thinking, leaving no spaces for curvy lines and organic lyricism. BUILD comes from construction, from the simplicity of modest materials and from its efficient response to the program. In one gesture, BUILD covers the whole brief: a pedestal for objects and exhibitions, a space for client meetings and display, a place for informal gatherings and 12 working stations. The multifunctional wooden bleacher was though and built for BASE-Geneva, an international graphic design studio.
CREDITS.
Project.- BUREAU A
Client.- BASE-Geneva
Dates.- 2013.
Photo credits (images with scouts).- Regis Golay
Photo credits (images of the studio in use).- BUREAU A
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Leopold Banchini y Daniel Zamarbide. BUREAU A
BUREAU A. Founded in 2012 by the association of Leopold Banchini and Daniel Zamarbide. Architects by training BUREAU A is a multidisciplinary platform aiming to blur the boundaries of research and project making on architectural related subjects, whichever their nature and status.
