Train of Thought
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Photo from the Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design exhibition at Heide Moma, featuring the Halo Light by Mandalaki Studio. Fun fact - in a previous practice, we had an amazing client who installed this in her home.
It’s well known that colour can positively influence your mood, so why is it that the colour palette of Australian interiors can often lean towards the anaemic?
While there are some interiors practices boldly making moves and influencing the Australian interiors landscape, there is still a background of stayed muted colours dominating the Australian built environment.
In our practice we work hard to try to get colour right, and we see it as important to infuse colour throughout our projects in a curated, meaningful way. By meaningful, we intend that colour comes from a place of reference and we’re conscious of colour’s power to imbue memory, that colour decisions are driven by an intention rather than haphazard desires...
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The NVG architecture commission for 2024, Home Truth by Breathe walks a fantastic line between immersion through playful experience and the seriousness of the posited ideas.
The integrity of the concept is superbly balanced with the clarity and tactility of the material palette and changes in spatial quality. The recycled polymer walling is alluring in its shift with scale and Breathe have nailed the proportions with the lofty spaces you first move through being fully immersive and the shift to the smaller timber spaces piquing interest in their inviting cosiness.
We visited on a warm summers day and the pavilion was buzzing with children and adults moving through the maze like spaces, the concealed window openings of particularly interest for children to move back and forth between. The experience is rounded out with the audio track. We could have happily stayed and played for many hours...
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The integrity of the concept is superbly balanced with the clarity and tactility of the material palette and changes in spatial quality. The recycled polymer walling is alluring in its shift with scale and Breathe have nailed the proportions with the lofty spaces you first move through being fully immersive and the shift to the smaller timber spaces piquing interest in their inviting cosiness.
We visited on a warm summers day and the pavilion was buzzing with children and adults moving through the maze like spaces, the concealed window openings of particularly interest for children to move back and forth between. The experience is rounded out with the audio track. We could have happily stayed and played for many hours...
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE