Timber iQ February - March 2018 // Issue: 36 | Page 25

PROJECTS
WISA birch plywood
®
Technically superior birch plywood
WISA-Birch Premium
Aesthetically pleasing plywood.
UPM’s fi nest quality face grade
– perfect for visually demanding
applications such as furniture
and interior linings.
WISA-Birch Special
Smooth surface for high quality
painting. An optimal base for
various overlaying methods in
demanding construction and
furniture applications.
WISA-Birch
Multi-purpose high quality
panel for various applications
where excellent strength and
stability are essential. An
optimal base for structures that
require robust construction.
The entrance creates an inviting ambience.
Their approach was to create a cosy, interactive, user
friendly environment, appropriate to human scale. It
is a space designed to be adapted to different
purposes easily, while developing a communication
with its user. “We think the strongest instrument in
achieving this is the extraordinary use of simple and
familiar materials and ideas,” says the duo.
DESIGNING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE
To start off they came up with a few simple, yet very
strong design ideas and shaped the whole space
within that framework. “One of these ideas is to form
an iron frame work and panels that create a
multipurpose background, allowing easy
arrangements for different needs like showcasing
glasses as well as art works,” they explain.
Another idea was to assign a light, familiar, friendly
element – something simple in form and size – and
generate a space using it all around.
They decided on cork yoga blocks, from Duplas , and
ended up hanging 550 of them in a 105m² area, 95 of
them are light sources. They hung a four-metre-long
plywood table laminated cork, supplied locally, on
both sides – from just four corners of the ceiling.
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