textile structure by moussafir + inside exterior
Amsterdam-based Inside Exterior takes to Paris to create a dynamic façade curtain for Moussafir Architectes. Whereas the Petra Blaisse-founded agency works primarily in panorama structure and inside design, rules from every discipline are borrowed to design this newest mission. The vertical, four-piece array of translucent curtains are created with PVC mesh and are perforated to create the delicate and abstracted silhouette of a ‘Prunus lusitanica’ tree. What’s extra, the reconfigurable meeting affords the constructing each an inside ambiance and an exterior identification which can be in fixed flux in accordance with the wants of its occupants.
picture © Jacques Moussafir
an ever-changing façade in paris
Inside Exterior designs the façade curtain in collaboration with Parisian agency Moussafir Architectes to shroud a residential and workplace complicated within the coronary heart of town alongside the Rue du Vertbois. In the course of the mission’s earliest design section, the workforce was tasked with growing a curtain to be put in exterior a glass and aluminum façade which might serve to each shield in opposition to glare and guarantee privateness. Inside Exterior notes that textile structure was already a signature of the studio and is commonly employed to create transformable interiors and exteriors with its flexibility and reconfigurability.
‘This four-piece curtain not solely shades and cools the constructing’s interiors and adjustments the façade’s composition,’ Inside Exterior tells designboom, ‘it additionally withstands the forces of nature that prevail within the slim city avenue during which the constructing is positioned.’
picture © Jacques Moussafir
the luminous curtain
With its textile façade by Inside Exterior, the constructing in Paris takes on an undulating and textural expression which glows softly when illuminated at evening. The construction integrates linear LED lighting which helps to rework the impact of every curtain as it’s opened or closed by way of a motorized system with built-in sensors.
The picture of the Prunus lusitanica tree is rendered with round perforations which improve the façade’s permeability and solid playful noticed shadows all through the interiors in the course of the daytime.
picture © Herve Abbadie
picture © Herve Abbadie
picture © Herve Abbadie
