fusco interieur en architectuur
Architectenbureau te Utrecht gespecialiseerd in binnenhuisarchitectuur, verbouwing en renovatie
Old and new illusions
Camera Picta (or: Camera degli Sposi), ceiling, Castle of St. George in Mantua (Andrea Mantegna – 1465/75)
“A painted oculus that illusionistically opens into a blue sky, with foreshortened carachters.
This was one of the earliest ‘di sotto in su’ ceiling paintings”.
HYPERSKY (Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram – 2008)
“Digital fresco of the 21st century, seamlessly integrated in the ceiling of the entrance hall of a private residence. HYPERSKY is an augmented reality window looking upwards, revealing the current natural conditions and manmade objects zooming through the airspace above the house”.
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Remarkable stairs
Castelvecchio Museum in Verona – first restoration (Carlo Scarpa – 1956/58)
Banisters are not always easy to combine with the other elements of a project in a completely satisfactory way.
In this picture we see how Carlo Scarpa was able to design a staircase that is dynamic and relatively “open” but perfectly safe and not provided with an extra element that acts as a banister. In fact, supporting structure, step, containment wall (not essential but useful, in this case, to isolate the connection path) and banister are merged into a single repeated element. The staircase seems non-conventional, linear though expressive, perfectly distinguishable from the pre-existing space.
It is not easy to find stairs that contains all these characteristics.
Notice how material properties and shape are used to solve a practical problem in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The staircase integrates very well with the building and does not attract too much attention.
Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice – restoration (Tadao Ando – 2007/09)
This solution is elegant but completely different.
Obviously the given situation and the designer’s goals were also completely different.
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Ascension to higher levels
H House in Maastricht (Wiel Arets Architects - 2005/11)
Do-Ho Suh (Staircase - first installation 2003)
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Very special eco-friendly solid wood furniture
Doga (Michele De Lucchi - 2011 - metal and old San Patrignano barrique staves)
Venice (Claudio Bellini - 2011 - steel and old Venetian oak posts)
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Colour as space: two points of view
No. 8 (Jackson Pollock - 1949)
Yellow band (Mark Rothko - 1956)
