Basic House in Bangkok exhibits owner's car collection

A glass-walled garage and courtyard form the focal point of Basic House, a residence by Brownhouses in Bangkok that is designed to be deliberately simple.

The slender white house was completed for Korn Thongtour and Nartrudee Treesaksrisaku, founders of Thai studio Brownhouses, to accommodate their growing family.

It is distinguished by bright white finishes and simple form, with the only ornament being their own possessions including a car collection housed in an indoor garage.

"[Thongtour] wanted to pick the most mundane materials but make it look beautiful and elegant," explained the studio's architecture assistant Kyrah Chotitawan.

"He wanted to show the beauty of how simple and ordinary materials can work together to create beautiful forms," she told Dezeen. "The basic house is an ordinary home with special and unique qualities tailored to its inhabitants."

Basic House has two storeys that slot into its slender site. It measures nine metres on its smallest side, and has a length of 30 metres.

The external shape of the house is modelled on a typical child's drawing of a house – a square with a pitched roof.

"The design of the building came from the simplest childhood inspiration of how children draw a 'basic house' – the triangle roof, rectangular door and the windows alongside it," said the studio.

Teamed with a bright white finishes throughout, Brownhouses said that this ensured a "clean-cut" finish that was "true to [their] minimal roots".

Inside, the pared-back aesthetic is enhanced by disguising all of the dwelling's functional and storage areas behind walls. Similarly, circulation is positioned along one side to negate the need for corridors and help create open and uncluttered interiors.

The home's focal point is ground floor, which contains an open courtyard and the internal glass-walled garage. Brownhouses designed the garage to exhibit Thongtour's vast collection of cars, and provide views of it throughout the home.

"The exposed garage allows [Thongtour] to exhibit the beauty and elegance of his cars," explained Chotitawan.

"But it is also for a feeling of constant interaction with his personal collection throughout the home, as he goes about his daily routine."

Meanwhile, the courtyard is intended to encourage the family to interact wherever they are in the house by allowing them to see each other from either end.

It is also establishes a connection with nature and the outside, featuring a large tree that extends out of the house through an open roof that floods the space with natural light.

Photo is by Brownhouses.

Also on the ground floor is a work space, positioned adjacent to the garage and a staircase that leads to the first floor.

The first floor hosts an open-plan kitchen, living and dining area, alongside a playroom for the children that hides a second staircase leading up into a small attic space. It is complete with one giant bedroom shared by the family.

Similar projects to Basic House on Dezeen include a white bunker-like residence in Takamatsu, Japan, which has limited openings to draw attention to the owner's sports car.

In Barcelona, Cadaval & Solà-Morales transformed an old theatre into a home that features an indoor parking space where inhabitants can openly display their classic car "like a sculpture".

Photography is by Wison Tungthunya unless stated.

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Project credits:

Architect: Brownhouses
Lead architect: Korn Thongtour
Interior designer: Nartrudee Treesaksrisakul
Project architect: Kasideh Hoo
Design team: Brownhouses
Clients: Korn Thongtour, Nartrudee Treesaksrisakul
Engineering: Ronnarit Kongkiatikul
Consultants: Brownhouses

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Bowen Liu Studio designs furniture collection for imaginary painter

A rust-coloured leather nightstand and desk with looping wooden legs are among the furniture pieces in this collection by Brooklyn's Bowen Liu Studio.

Bower Liu Studio has created an imaginary painter's room, decorated with paintings, tapestries and jars of paintbrushes, to form the setting to launch its new series.

The backdrop to A Painter's Room is a space with white-painted brickwork walls and wooden flooring

Photos of the showcase called A Painter's Room present the collection in a space with white-painted brick walls and wooden flooring.

Among the items on show are the Yan platform bed and Yan nightstand made from walnut. The headboard is formed from several slabs of the dark wood with a large cutout at the top.

Gatsby Credenza references the prohibition era with a "speakeasy" door on its rear side for hiding liquor products

The matching wooden frame for the mattress also forms a shelf along the bed's perimeter.

Covered in cognac leather, the Yan nightstand has peg legs and is fronted by a drawer and open bottom shelf.

A wooden mattress frame wraps around the Yan platform bed also creating a shelf on the perimeter

Also in the collection is the Peizi desk, which has a thin silhouette accented by a pair of tall looping legs. It features a flat surface table on top of a compartment fronted by a small drawer.

To accompany with tables, the studio designed the Feast Chairs with open backs and angled arm rests. The seats are upholstered with black leather.

The headboard is constructed from several slabs of dark wood and features a rectangular cutout along its top

The collection also includes a long cabinet fronted with a sliding black door accented with brass handles. Called the Gatsby Credenza, it is intended to pay homage to the prohibition era through a "speakeasy" door for hiding liquor products that attaches to its backside.

In addition to walnut, all of the pieces can be made in maple, white oak, cherry or ash wood.

To complete the space, Bowen Liu Studio included three paintings by local artist Aesther Chang, who took cues from work by poet Edgar Allan Poe to create the pieces for the fictional painter.

Cognac leather upholsters the top of the Yan nightstand

"Aesther Chang constructs the soul of the 'painter' in the room, presenting three paintings inspired by the poet Edgar Allan Poe that offer various internal and external perspectives from the point of view of the imagined painter," Bowen Liu Studio said.

Artwork shown alongside the furniture include a tapestry by Hangzhou fashion designer Lang Jin

The paintings are teamed with a boro-embroidered tapestry by Hangzhou fashion designer Lang Jin. The square textile was constructed using the traditional patchwork method and comprises dozens of plaid, floral and velvet fabric remnants sewn together.

Brooklyn design studio Radnor also recently launched a furniture collection that features several wood objects including a bed with a rattan headboard and curving cane-like legs and a round coffee table with visible joists.

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Grimes and WeTransfer collaborate, asking you to make bootleg versions of her latest music video

Grimes has released the unedited, raw footage alongside her latest music video via WeTransfer to encourage creatives in isolation to create their own videos from it.

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Angular "boulders" form Amanali house in Mexico by Rojkind Arquitectos

Mexico City's Rojkind Arquitectos has designed a weekend home near a lakeside town in Mexico to comprise five prismatic volumes covered in dark stone.

The property called Amanali is located in a residential development near the town of Tepeji del Rio, which translates as boulders on the river. With mild weather and access to water sports, it is a popular weekend retreat for those living in Mexico City and the state Querétaro.

Rojkind Arquitectos designed the recently photographed house, which was completed in 2013, to draw on the site's climate. The functions are separated into five blocks, described by the firm as "boulders" that are connected by walkways, steps and bridges outside.

"The house was conceived as weekend retreat for outdoor living with no clear boundaries between inside and outside," said the firm, which was founded by architect Michel Rojkind.

"Rather than stepping out of the home to the garden, the garden becomes part of the house and vice versa."

The ground-level pathways step down the site to connect the higher level street down towards to a swimming pool. "The house is gradually discovered as one descends from street level through the intimate alley that gives the complex a medieval hill-town feel," the firm added.

Dark porous stone sourced locally covers the bodies of the five volumes, which have dramatic shapes composed of irregular floor plans and sloped tops. Each has a concrete band that wraps around the top to outlines different rooftop areas, like terraces and gardens.

The stone and concrete boost the thermal mass of the house so it traps heat in the day and releases it at night when it is cooler. Each volume is also punctured with windows and other openings to aid ventilation as part of the strategy to naturally heat and cool the house.

Rojkind Arquitectos chose a mix of materials for the interiors that help to create continuity between the indoor and outdoor areas. Inside, exposed concrete walls and ceilings are paired with floors covered in a mix of dark wood and pale gravel stones.

The living area, a kitchen and dining area, master bedroom suite and another bedroom are split across the five volumes.

A standout is the two-storey living area, which has a lounge on the lower floor and a video room above. A zig-zagging black staircase leads to the upper floor where a net is used to form a suspended play area.

Founded in Mexico City in 2002, Rojkind Arquitectos has completed a number of large-scale projects across Mexico including Boca del Rio Philharmonic Orchestra, Nestlé Chocolate Museum and the renovation of Mexico's National Film Archive and Film Institute.

Photography is by Jaime Navarro.

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Project credits:

Rojkind Arquitectos: Michel Rojkind, Gerardo Salinas
Team: Alfredo Hernández, Gad Peralta, Herminio González, Victoria Grossi, Bárbara Trujillo, Adrián Aguilar, Scarlet Baron de Grote, Adrián Krezlik, Beatriz Zavala, Daniel Gaytán, Andrea León, Rosalba Rojas, Lorena García Cordero Sasía.
Structural engineer: Juan Felipe, Heredia Mellado
MEP: GESA Arquitectura
Landscape Consultant: Entorno Taller de Paisaje
Lighting Consultant: Ditto Iluminación

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Cut Your Own Vinyl with this DIY Record Engraver and Player Designed by Yuri Suzuki

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Making mixtapes and burning CDs might be a forgotten pastime, but the days of simple, homemade vinyl are just arriving thanks to Yuri Suzuki. The London-based designer, who is also a partner at Pentagram, has created the Easy Record Maker, a small device that makes audio recording straightforward and accessible to the general public.

By plugging in an auxiliary cable or USB and playing audio through a phone or other digital device, the cutting arm receives the sound vibrations and engraves the blank plastic three to four times within a single millimeter. Each side of the 5-inch record takes about four minutes to complete. When ready to play, the machine’s cutting piece should be swapped for the tone arm, which is large enough to accommodate traditional 7-inch EPs.

In an interview with It’s Nice That, Suzuki said that creating a DIY-record engraver has been one of his goals since his teenage days as part of a ska-punk band when he didn’t have the financial resources to use professional recording equipment. While that difficulty persists today, the designer said he also hoped this audio project would encourage users to focus and have fun. “Sound has a strong impact on our emotions and the way we behave, and I always try to create an experience with sound that as many people as possible can relate to,” he said.

The Easy Record Maker is currently available from Gakken in Japan and will be released to U.S. and U.K. audiences in the coming months. For a live demo, head to Suzuki’s Instagram this Friday to check out what he shares on IGTV.

 

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