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III DESIGN CONTEST
INTERIOR DESIGN
AWARDED STUDENT PROJECT HONOURABLE MENTION
ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE
FOUR GIANTS...
NOHGAKU
The project awarded in the Student category, based on the theatre
The Honourable mention has gone to the project
Once Upon a Time There Were Four Giants... Made
in natural stone, four “giants” emerge in two heights.
concept Nohgaku (contrasts), is a loft conveying a duality between the
The central one becomes the central character of
private and public space, but its spaces are fully connected in an open-
the play and, through a dialogue with the other three,
plan inherent to the loft concept. It has been projected as a big hollowed
generates the whole project: its spaces, passages,
out marble cube in which three wooden boxes are inserted creating the
lighting, etc. In addition, these “giants” hold parts of the
spaces of the Noh stage (mirror-office room, bridge-passage area and
programme inside with no interruption of the spatial
stage-bedroom), and its design is austere, far from flashy. The fourth space
continuity, but responding to the need of a visual break
(dressing room-bathroom-walk-in wardrobe) is made up by the very hollow
and a sort of public privacy. The four “giants” made
in the marble. The public space, Kyogen, shaped in the reverse way, is
in natural stone are quartzite bricks whose shapes
completely open and the only multi-purpose common space. A stage that
vary according to the space that each occupies. The
transforms itself by leaving room for a party, a meeting, a yoga session, or
natural wood rounds off the atmospheres providing
taking over the space to sit and talk on the sofas, have dinner, play table
warmth, elegance and order to the powerful avant-
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garde dialogue that is established.
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