Sunday, March 16, 2014

Modern Steam Stove-Top Tea Maker by DesignNobis

Reflecting upon tea culture in east, Steam features stacking teapots specially designed for tea preparation. It is a stove-top tea maker that brews tea by passing hot water pressurized by steam through stacked kettles. When desired amount is collected in upper part, switch on top is turned to stop water transfer. Serving is made using two kettles to dilute the tea and water, therefore allowing the user to adjust the strength of the tea. Since tea is steeped with steam, it offers a full flavor tea brew. The transparent glass teapot also comes with matching gorgeous transparent glass cups. Aluminum and glass materials are used along recycled plastics; including stainless steel base in which all parts are fully recyclable. Harmonizing elements from traditional craft teapots and naturalist art, Steam has been designed to create a modern, sculptural tea serving set.


Designer : DesignNobis


Steam Stove Top Tea Maker by DesignNobis


Steam Stove Top Tea Maker by DesignNobis



Steam Stove Top Tea Maker by DesignNobis


Steam Stove Top Tea Maker by DesignNobis


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The Kooyong House by Matt Gibson Architecture

Matt Gibson Architecture designed the Kooyong House in Melbourne, Australia.


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Project description



The existing site contained a grand Victorian double front dwelling badly in need of repair. Upon persuasive encouragement and expert advice the client agreed to retain the front elements of the building.


Following the removal of a previous addition, the extensive brief requested an upper level addition, garage & pool. Our choice (given depth of the site) was to separate rather than attach the new works to the rear of the existing building which availed textured areas of external space between old & new objects. 2 levels of new ‘L’ shaped floor area are stacked on top of each other at the rear utilising the limits of the site.


Ground level links are made via a Garage and a circulation ‘bridge’ extending off the existing hallway. This hallway continues as a main axis through new and old to the rear of the site. Presented as a corridor of archways this ‘journey of time’ sets up a series of delayed thresholds or framed scenes. Although the new work is deliberately set apart as new ‘pavilion’, it is deliberately recessive from the street adding to the sense and cognitive interest once one reaches the end of the axis leaving little memory of the original Victorian dwelling.


The interior spatial logic of the original was flipped. The formality of the existing dwelling was deliberately used for adult (sleeping and greeting )uses whilst the rear of the ground level converts to more informal Living purposes with Children’s facilities upstairs. Small extensions off the ground floor ‘L’ and nips and tucks to the first floor enable a series of separate individual & private light courts that spill off the internal spaces.


The warmth & sensuous use of the timber cladding and the employment of radii/curved corners within the apexes of the stacked ‘L’s also help to enhance a more sculptured and playful point of difference to the rigidity and masculinity the existing building. The central courtyard area could have presented as the rear faces of the front and rear buildings however these spaces perhaps instead provide the most interestingly spatial experience & reading of the history of the site. A glass prism openable to the elements links in a metaphorical bridge between old and new and provides an important temperature regulator. The ‘stacked’ floors of the timber façade wall combine and separate in opposite directions in a ‘paper tearing’ action accentuating the more sinuous and organic drama of the rear building.


At the rear 70 solid blackbutt timber fins functionally address overlooking and solar emission concerns as they disperse gradually from east to north & break down a seemingly solid façade at one end to be completely permeable at the other. In contradiction the floor beneath act in the opposite way setting up dichotomies of weightleness and groundedness.


As opposed to other dwellings in the street that present the Victorian notion of villa on green field this house celebrates nuances of both with additions acting as urban oasis that reaches out and embrace their environment.



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Architect: Matt Gibson Architecture

Photography: SMG