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Work: Hotel Melia Patagonia
Architect: José Domingo Peñafiel - www.penafielarq.cl
Architects Contributors: Enrique JOGL, Marlene Fischer, Fernanda Krauss, Peter Peñafiel, Sandro Figueroa, Gonzalo Sure.
Location: Street Klenner 349, Puerto Varas, Region X, Chile
Year: 2007
Property Management: Conarq
Land Area: 19.380m2
Built surface: 11.000m2 remodeled, new 4.500m2
Construction: Covalco
Engineers calculation: Luis Soler and Associates

Built in 30 years, the building of former large hotel in Puerto Varas, did not lend itself to the demands of a contemporary hotel. With its long and wide aisles, huge rooms and dining rooms, bedrooms girls with small bathrooms, oversized service areas for current needs, remodeling was a major challenge. When it was decided to preserve the building-because of the image of the old hotel in memory of Puerto Varas-from the architectural point of view we were facing a complicated problem.

It drew the match original building on areas have clearly oversized, which today could not be done. Major corridors, huge rooms and dining rooms were consolidated as its milestones. The rooms grew by adding spaces between them. The bathrooms were cleared and bleached. All its facilities were replaced.

The garden is cleared, was left species and valuable trees and enhanced its original layout preserving the character of a garden years but fresh and bright.

The decoration work was done with the idea of environment in Patagonia. This meant minimizing the best materials to use, choosing only natural materials and colors, wood, leather, parchment, wool, linen, cotton, iron.

The hotel has two characters simultaneously; vacation and work. However, its furniture and equipment show an image relaxed, loose, informal and welcoming.

Furniture seating are appropriate and to invade. Sofas and chairs are wide, deep, low. The body, rather than sit upright in them, are recuesta, remaining in attitude of sleep. This is the atmosphere of the new hotel. This feeling is achieved in the halls, at the bar, on the terrace or even in the dormitories.

The original building was stiff and hard. The original structure was respected. We used the wood to “soften” walls, floors and skies. The image of the hotel into the street from the yard and front entrance was symmetrical. Added a body of wood in front of the entrance door, a porch turned that broke with the symmetry of access and the street, leaving the hotel in a “behind” a small forest. The building no longer appears planted on the street but behind a group of trees.

Elevation and details

Want to say is that open slowly

Craig Ward is a London based Graphic Designer who likes to play with Words. Working predominantly in the editorial and publishing fields, He See’s himself as a typographic illustrator; bringing to life headlines, creating new typographic treatments and continuously exploring the notion of word as image.

Dress for Dinner Napkins
A small intervention of an everyday object based on a familiar situation that results on a unexpected and fun object, is the latest project of the London based, Hector Serrano Studio.

Everyone like floating in mid-air! Previously denis darzacq did the Hyper floating series. Now is the Julia Fullerton-Batten.

Saarinen table from “figures & wares” series (Saarinen table designed by Eero Saarinen for Knoll )

jazz table from “figures & wares” series

Harcourt chair from “figures & wares” series

Cortina chair from “figures & wares” series (Cortina chair designed by  Gordon Guillaumier for Minotti)

Studio stool Diptych from  “figure studies” series

Swann from “figure studies” series

Cyc from “figure studies” series

Rue Vielle du Temple from “figure studies” series

Bill Durgin [Figurations]

September 4, 2008 through October 11, 2008
Opening reception: September 4, 6-9pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Merge Gallery is excited to introduce the work of Bill Durgin in his first solo exhibition with the gallery entitled “Figurations.” Durgin’s work will be on display opening September 4, 2008 to close October 11, 2008. Durgin is a New York-based photographer and his current series exploits the genre of figuration to propose a more seductive and uncanny composition of the body.
Durgin’s photographs reflect his fascination with the figure as a sculptural entity. His complex arrangements of the body require extreme contortion to achieve an austere effect, as if the figures have been abstracted. The gestures examine his own corporal boundaries as well as those of the performers he works with and are impressive in their ability to seemingly defy physical limitations. Transforming the body into an amorphic object, Durgin uses a large format camera and film to capture the figures so that they appear to be without appendages. Recognizable as bodies, they remain detached from common perceptions of the human form.
Upon first glance, Durgin’s photographs possess a certain ominous and disturbing quality, the figures appear slightly grotesque as in Lucien Freud’s figure studies. This quality is also enhanced through the figure’s relationship to the specific architectural space – the studio. The composition is carefully considered, the colors range from light and airy to slightly moodier and grim. What remains is the beauty of the figure and the mystery behind it. The effect can be haunting but is also captivating and stunning.

MERGE gallery | 205 West 20th Street, N.York, 10011

AUTHOR:JAROSLAV JUŘICA
YEAR:2008
MATERIAL:MDF, 2ndhand drawers
DIMESIONS:di f ferent sizes
Drawerment is a composition of drawers collected from old office furniture. The installation enables viewers to find their own story in it.
In 1993, Tejo Remy designed a the iconic „Chest of Drawers“. He assembled different kinds of drawers into an accidental and dynamic composition. I took this idea apart and let the drawers fly free to find their own position in the corner of the room.
The Drawerment could also be a small anniversary of 15 years of „Chest of Drawers“ - A piece of art that let loose the „rigid“ era of product design at that time.
The composition has been designed for Demakersvan | dutch design house as a part of their renovated studio in Rotterdam.

About Hubero Kororo Design
Hubero Kororo Design Group was founded by students of industrial design in Brno in spring 2005.
As we understand it, design is a medium able to comunicate with user. A product is not based only on a shape or a function. It has often ability to evolve users and tell something. Our focus is to realize our ideas in broader context. We are looking for a new relationships between the product and a user to move the board of design further from applied art to sociology and cultural context.
In this case, outcome doesn’t have to be only a product but it can also be an idea or an action.
The title Hubero Kororo is also reaction against the existing trend, when many artists include terms such as “studio” or “design” in their names.
the team
Rumburak (guru)
BcA. Jaroslav Juřica (product designer)
BcA. Zuzana Lehutová (graphic designer)
BcA. Petr Korecký (product designer) - terminated the activity in 2008