The workplace of the British ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in Shaghai feels like home. They’ve got a kitchen, a bathroom, a formal dining room, and a kids’ room (complete with a laddered loft bed). It could almost pass for a quaint little cottage somewhere in the English countryside. There’s just one hitch: The “cottage” looks like it was sawed clear in half.
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From matthew’s set, “every chair I sit in”chairs at lincoln center
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i miss the studio
It’s brilliant and it is whut? I just love how people seem to think up amazing things like this one:
Here, he’s the designer of the Push Button House, which was exported by a company called Illy for display in Europe. At the push of a button, the container opens like a flower, transforming a simple, rectangular box into a fully furnished, functional space. Using hydraulic cylinders controlled by a computer inside the kitchen, the house container literally expands into a six-room apartment with a kitchen, dining room, bathroom, bedroom, living room and library in a mere 60 seconds. The entire house was created from recycled materials, showcasing the best of Kalkin’s industrial creativity.
The Light Drop is supposed to make people think about how we are dealing with our natural resources, in this particular case, the water, which is the main source of energy for every living organism in this fantastic world. Water is energy indeed.
It’s currently being sold and produced by Wever & Ducre.
