Object Carpet's latest textile flooring collection treats "the room as a stage"

Dezeen promotion: Object Carpet has collaborated with the Ippolito Fleitz Group to launch a varied collection of carpets that range from soft, plush textures to coarser, looped structures.

The Object Carpet x Ippolito Fleitz Group flooring collection aims to convey a sense of "sensuality, cosiness and security" through the creation of different textures and colourways.

The new range includes eight new materials that are available in a total of 111 colours. The designs include Skill x Chill, Meet x Beat, Move x Groove, Flow x Glow, Deal x Feel, Highs x Sighs, Craze x Chase and Walk x Talk.

Highs x Sighs is a soft carpet best suited to cosier, home environments

According to the company, each style has been named after the mood and atmosphere it is best suited to.

Highs x Sighs, for instance, is tailored to home environments with its dense pile that makes it "so invitingly soft that you will want to sit down on it and let out a relaxed sigh".

This style comes in 10 different shades including greys, blues and a dusty pink hue.

The Walk x Talk design comes in 19 colours

Walk x Talk, on the other hand, boasts a minimal design that Object Carpet suggests could be placed in parliamentary buildings as "an elegant understatement".

This design comes in 19 colours, which include different shades of yellow, varied grey tones and two types of green; light and dark.

The Craze x Chase design comes in 10 colours

"Interesting structures – sometimes finely intertwined, sometimes with concise knobs or with a dense pile – give each of the carpets a special appearance," said Object Carpet.

"The colour variations, from subtle natural to surprisingly experimental, play a decisive role," the brand continued.

"Like a new outfit, their refined interplays change the carpets' visual effects, and create the best conditions for use in different types of rooms, whether in a hotel room, a lounge, an educational institution or a prestigious office."

The Meet x Beat design is available in 13 different colourways

Skill x Chill is made up from a slightly shiny material that is formed in rippled loops, making it both protective and metallic to create a "certain glamour".

Meanwhile Move x Groove sees dual shades of fabric come together in an organic, grainy pattern to offer "seemingly endless structures and colour schemes". This carpet design is best suited to large surfaces.

The new collection was featured in a short film styled by photographer Monica Menez

Each of the designs are available as sheet material, acoustic tiles and RUGX fitted carpets.

Object Carpet had planned to present the new collection in a large installation at Ventura Centrale during this year's Milan design week, however as the event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the brand created a short film instead titled Escapade.

The video, which is featured at the top of this page, saw the company recreate a version of the planned installation as a film set, shot in a "film noir" style and interpreted by fashion photographer Monica Menez.

The new range includes eight new materials available in 111 colours

Founded in 1972, Object Carpet offers over 1,200 designs for rugs, carpet tiles and custom-cut carpets. Ippolito Fleitz Group, founded in 2002, is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Stuttgart.

For more information on the Object Carpet x Ippolito Fleitz Group collection, visit the Object Carpet website.

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Snøhetta designs carbon-negative Powerhouse Telemark office in Norway

Snøhetta has completed the carbon-negative Powerhouse Telemark office in the city of Porsgrunn, Norway, which was designed to produce more energy than it will consume over its lifespan.

The angular building is highly insulated and has a large photovoltaic canopy covering its roof and south-facing facade that will generate 256,000 kilowatts of energy each year.

According to Snøhetta, this will mean it creates enough surplus renewable energy to compensate for the carbon consumed by the office over a 60-year lifespan – including its construction, demolition and the embodied-carbon of building materials.

Powerhouse Telemark is an energy-positive office in Norway

Powerhouse Telemark was designed by Snøhetta with R8 Property, Skanska and Asplan Viak, and is its fourth Powerhouse building, following Powerhouse Brattørkaia.

The Powerhouse buildings were developed in response to the climate crisis and the building industry's contribution to global carbon emissions, with the goal of offering a "sustainable model for the future of workspaces".

It has a giant photovoltaic canopy that generates clean energy

"Architecture, as we see it, probably has the purpose of creating better environments for human and non-human existence on Earth," said Snøhetta founding partner Kjetil Trædal Thorsen.

"There is no question that we, as a profession, have to deal with the problems, not challenges, real problems that we have at hand, at any time through our professional network and cross-collaboration," he told Dezeen.

The office has an angular and "clearly identifiable" form

"Powerhouse is a constellation of different companies that work with different clients in order to create a building that principally produces extensively more clean energy than it consumes," Thorsen continued.

"What we've proven with this building is that there is no excuse for the building industry, not to build energy-positive buildings anymore. All the systems that are in this building are existing in the market."

Wooden cladding is used as solar shading

Powerhouse Telemark is distinguished by its 11-storey, skewed form that features a steep roof angled at 24-degrees and a distinctive 45-degree-notch on its east-facing facade.

This provides the building with a "clearly identifiable expression", helps to maximise the amount of solar energy the photovoltaic canopy can harvest and creates light-filled spaces inside.

"Environmental concrete" is exposed internally

The building's facades are highly insulated and clad in a mix of wooden panels that provide solar shading and Cembrit facade panels – a large fibre cement sheet.

Cembrit was chosen as it provides the building with a "density akin to that of a stone structure" – meaning it can store thermal heat during the day and slowly emit heat during the evening. This helps to passively heat and cool the building, in tandem with a system that uses geothermal wells dug 350 metres below ground.

The building features a "barception"

Inside the office comprises a mix of different office spaces, alongside a "barception", a shared staff restaurant, penthouse meeting spaces and a roof terrace.

A basement was not included to reduce the amount of concrete required for the project.

The concrete walls are teamed with wooden furnishings

Among the office spaces are two storeys of flexible, co-working spaces that allow users to easily expand or downsize their workforce, and switch between working privately or collaboratively.

They are positioned in the angular, west and south-facing areas of the building that are brighter and have larger, open-plan arrangements.

Smaller and more traditional, enclosed workspaces are contained behind the building's straighter facades, away from sun-exposed areas. Together, this layout reduces overheating and dependence on artificial cooling.

A canteen was built on the angular side of the building

Powerhouse Telemark's interior material palette is also designed to be as sustainable as possible, composed of a minimal palette of local wood, gypsum and carpet tiles made from 70 per cent recycled fishing nets.

These elements were designed to complement the building's exposed "environmental concrete" structure – a type of concrete that uses less energy in its production and produces less carbon dioxide than traditional concrete.

There are two-storeys of co-working spaces

The material palette, furnishings and fixtures are consistent and standardised throughout the office to reduce waste.

Meanwhile, artificial lighting is used at an absolute minimum, with windows incorporated throughout the bring light into the depths of the building.

Notable elements of the interiors include two large staircases that connect the building's ground floor to its upper levels. There is also a straight, wooden staircase hidden on the ninth floor of the building that guides visitors up to the building's roof terrace.

More private work areas are housed on the north side

Snøhetta's other Powerhouse buildings completed over the last decade are Powerhouse Kjørbo and Powerhouse Montessori.

The completion of Powerhouse Telemark follows Thorsen's warning to architects that they must plan for "armageddon situations" and the studio's pledge to only design carbon-negative buildings, meaning their projects will generate more energy than they consume over their lifetime.

"For the next 10 years Snøhetta will focus on turning our project portfolio carbon neutral in terms of all projects in the design stage," the firm told Dezeen. "Within the next 20 years [we will] ensure that our built projects are carbon neutral."

Photography is by Ivar Kvaal.

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