Dezeen Showroom: furniture brand Tylko has added three new contemporary hues to its Type02 range of customisable storage units, which includes bookshelves arranged into staggered patterns.
The Type02 storage range includes bookcases, wardrobes, sideboards, TV stands, chests of drawers, vinyl storage, and shoe racks, all highly customisable through an online configurator.
Sky Blue is one of the new hues in the Type02 range
Tylko's goal with the Type02 was to encourage self-expression and playfulness, and the tool allows customers to adjust elements of the storage units in detail, down to its height, width, and the placement of shelves, doors and drawers.
Tylko's new colour additions – Burgundy Red, Sky Blue and Cotton Beige – are designed to fit with contemporary interior design trends.
Burgundy Red is another of the new colour options, designed to suit contemporary interiors
The new hues are available on all Type02 products and join the existing palette of Midnight Blue, Sand, Terracotta and White.
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Projects by Ibuku, Rooi Design and Research, and Honext have been voted by Dezeen readers as winners of this year's Dezeen Awards public vote in the sustainability categories.
A total of 53,400 votes were cast and verified across all categories. The results of the public votes for the Dezeen Awards 2021 sustainability categories are listed below.
Dezeen Awards 2021 public vote winners in the architecture categories were announced on Monday, the interiors winners on Tuesday, the design winners on Wednesday, the media winners will be revealed later today, and lastly, the studio winners tomorrow.
Dezeen Awards winners announced in November
The public vote is separate from the main Dezeen Awards 2021 judging process, in which entries are assessed by our prestigious panel of judges. We'll be announcing the Dezeen Awards 2021 winners online in late November.
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Below are the public vote results for the sustainability categories:
The Arc at Green School by Ibuku is the winner of the Dezeen Awards 2021 public vote in the sustainable building category
Sustainable building
The Arc at Green School Bali designed by Ibuku was chosen as the sustainable building of the year in the public vote with 55 per cent of votes.
The multipurpose sports court is sheltered by a series of 14-metre-high bamboo arches that mimic the shape of a mammal's rib cage.
Furniture Pavilion S by Rooi Design and Research is the winner in the Dezeen Awards 2021 public vote in the sustainable interior of the year category
Sustainable interior
Furniture Pavilion S is a stacked plywood sheet structure built as a recyclable showroom at the Shanghai International Furniture Fair in 2019. The modular plywood structure won sustainable interior of the year with 40 per cent of the votes.
Next in the sustainable interior category are Valo Hotel & Work with 22 per cent, Bermonds Locke by Holloway Li with 21 per cent, MO de Movimiento by Lucas Muñoz with 11 per cent, and Lolita Eipprova by Triiije with five per cent.
Honext Material by Honext is the winner of the Dezeen Awards 2021 public vote in the sustainable design category
Sustainable design
Barcelona-based company Honext's indoor cladding and partitioning panels made from industrial paper sludge and post-consumer cardboard waste have been voted sustainable design of the year by our readers with 23 per cent of votes.
A hull-style ceiling and terrazzo flooring that resembles sea salt appear inside this store in Tuscany by fashion brand Forte Forte, which has been designed by creative duo Giada Forte and Robert Vattilana.
The boutique is rich with decorative features, which the pair says were informed by its location in Forte dei Marmi – a seaside town in northern Tuscany that's popular for its pristine beaches.
Clothes rails (top image) and wooden fins (above) have been suspended from the shop's walls
"The architectural language takes on local inflections and specific accents without ever becoming a dialect," Forte and Vattilana said of the way the interior of the store nods to its location.
"We also had an opportunity to work on unprecedented balances and harmonious contrasts. For the first time, we combined wood – which is organic and redolent with nautical memories – with the metals and minerals that are the defining elements of the Forte Forte materiality."
A three-tiered shelf displays lifestyle items
After entering the glass-fronted Forte dei Marmi boutique, customers pass beneath five arched frames made from twisting timber beams.
When viewed together, the frames are meant to suggest the distinctive curvature of a ship's hull.
Shoes are showcased on narrow plinths
In keeping with the maritime theme, the store's terrazzo floor is inlaid with flecks of white stone that are reminiscent of salt crystals.
The same material also forms other elements across the interior such as door handles, side tables and slender plinths for displaying shoes.
The rear of the store is lined in gold leaf
Other accessories and lifestyle items are presented on three-tiered shelving units, while garments hang from spindly rails.
Giada Forte, who co-founded Forte Forte, worked with art director Vattilana to fashion a relaxing courtyard-like area at the centre of the store, placing a bench beside a leafy tropical plant in a grooved vase.
Most of the walls are washed with blush-coloured plaster. But at the rear of the store, the material palette turns more decadent with gold leaf lining a boxed-in mezzanine level as well as a door leading to the back-of-house facilities.
This is hidden behind a matching L-shaped service counter crafted entirely from brass.
Shiny brass has been used to create an L-shaped service counter
Designed to feel "as intimate as a boudoir", the dressing rooms are concealed behind heavy velvet curtains that are gold on one side and a rich shade of teal on the other.
Inside, there are cushioned stool seats and brass-edged rotating mirrors.
The boudoir-like dressing rooms are hidden by velvet curtains
Giada Forte founded Forte Forte alongside her brother Paolo Forte in 2002, launching the business from their childhood home in Italy's Veneto region.
Dezeen has teamed up with The World Around to live-stream its In Focus: Land event on 22 October, an afternoon of free online talks exploring the complex post-colonial issues of land use in the 21st century.
Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck and MASS Design Group principal Joseph Kunkel are among the speakers scheduled for The World Around In Focus: Land.
The event will bring together artists, activists and practitioners from around the world across three themed sessions as part of The World Around's year in residence at Guggenheim Museum.
Event to explore the "infrastructures and systems that shape our lives"
The free online public programme is the latest event by The World Around – a non-profit organisation founded in 2020 by Beatrice Galilee with the aim to deepen architectural discourse.
With The World Around in Focus: Land, the organisation says it will "share the compelling and important stories of artists, researchers, designers, scientists and architects whose work explores the agency of infrastructures and systems that shape our lives and deplete natural resources".
The World Around's previous events include January's 2021 summit, also live-streamed on Dezeen, and an Earth Day symposium held as part of Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival.
The October 22 forum will be the first in a series of "In Focus" events focused on contemporary post-colonial land-use issues and aimed at building a more equitable future.
The talks will unfold across three sessions – titled Community, Technology and Ecology – and will be followed by discussion.
The World Around In Focus: Land will be live-streamed on Dezeen on Friday October 22 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm London time (1:00pm to 4:00pm New York Time), as well as the Guggenheim Museum's YouTube channel.
The World Around has been in residence at the museum throughout 2021, with the October 22 event marking the last of the activities programmed under its auspices.
Read on for the full line-up and register to take part on the day.
Renee Kemp-Rotan will present her Africatown International Design Idea Competition project
Community
The first session will feature designer and educator Kunkel, who is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation Kunkel and a principal at MASS Design Group, where he directs the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab. He will speak about integrating and lifting indigenous voices into community design projects.
He will be followed by urban planner Renee Kemp-Rotan, who is the first African American woman to graduate from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Architecture. She will share the story of her current project, the Africatown International Design Idea Competition, which will create an Africatown Cultural Mile to mark the first African settlement in the US in Mobile, Alabama.
This session will be moderated by architect Emanuel Admassu.
Simon Denny will present his work that explores how technologists view land
Technology
Artist Simon Denny will start the next session. Denny's art, including the recent exhibitions Mine and Proof of Stake, interrogates the way technologists frame land-use issues, including around mineral extraction and labour practices.
Speaking next will be environmental social scientist and geographer Buck, whose recent book After Geoengineering laid out the progressive case for geoengineering. She will speak about how emerging technologies can help build a regenerative society.
This session will be moderated by curator Dani Admiss.
Elizabeth Hoover will present work focusing on Native American food sovereignty
Ecology
The final session will start with anthropologist Elizabeth Hoover, who is an associate professor in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. She will speak about her work on food sovereignty and environmental justice for Native American communities.
Following her will be multidisciplinary artists Carolina Caycedo and David De Rozas. They will present on their new body of work examining the issues of land ownership, infrastructure and natural resources in Texas.
Academic Macarena Gómez-Barris will chair the discussion.
The World Around In Focus: Land programme will be accompanied by a commissioned essay by Hoover, and The World Around newsletter subscribers will also have access to films.
One of the award-winning projects from this year's Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show explores how humans might use geoengineering to develop a more intimate relationship with the climate.
With Human-Cloud Project, Filips Staņislavskis has created a series of tools that turn human breath into clouds.
Human-Cloud Project wants to challenge the use of geoengineering
The BA Leisure graduate wants to challenge the use of geoengineering, also known as climate engineering – the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s natural systems to counteract climate change.
Instead of using geoengineering to control the weather or minimise global warming, he would like people to feel a more personal connection with the climate.
The process involves extracting liquid from exhaled breath
"Geoengineering presents the logical solution to an existential crisis, by making us the masters of nature," said the designer.
"I was curious about how this technology was mediating our relationship to the climate system," he told Dezeen, "and whether it was possible to instead use it to create a sense of belonging and compassion towards it."
Staņislavskis has designed two devices that allow a person to artificially create their own personal clouds.
The first is a device that captures exhaled breath and turns it into liquid. It is a double-walled lab condenser equipped with a mouthpiece, which uses a process of condensation to extract the moisture from each exhaled breath.
Once the process is complete, the liquid can be decanted into a small glass vial.
The liquid is used to create a personal cloud
The second tool, a "cloud generator", is attached to a weather balloon so it can release its cloud high up in the sky.
A circuit board is programmed to activate the device when it reaches an appropriate height, where an atomiser turns the liquid back into vapour and the pumps produce the cloud.
"These clouds are tiny and dissipate quickly," said Staņislavskis. "Therefore, even if produced on a grand scale, they would probably have close to no environmental impact."
A weather balloon is used to release the cloud into the sky
Artificial cloud production is currently involved in various climate engineering processes.
In cloud seeding, chemical substances such as silver iodide or dry ice (the solid form of carbon dioxide) are released into the atmosphere as a form of condensation nuclei, causing more raindrops or snowflakes to form.
The process was developed as a solution for drought, although some scientists have doubts about its effectiveness.
The designer wants users to develop an intimate relationship with the climate
Clouds are also key to the theoretical geoengineering practice known as marine cloud brightening, which involves spraying natural substances such as sea salt into marine clouds to make them thicker and more reflective. In theory, this could help the clouds act as sun shields.
The full impact of these technologies can be difficult to measure, although Staņislavskis claims they have been linked to a range of other phenomena.
"Extreme climate events, air pollution, respiratory diseases and systemic smothering have intensified since we started drastically altering the composition of gasses in the atmosphere," said Staņislavskis.
"We need to question where we're going with this," he continued. "Is it really to make a more inhabitable world or is it some sort of power play?"
The process is similar to cloud seeding, but is believed to have no environmental impact
The Human-Cloud Project was selected by Design Academy Eindhoven judges as the winner of the Melkweg Award, which recognises exceptional talent at bachelor degree level.
The project aligns with the concept of the anthropocene, which categorises our current time period as the first age where humans are the dominant environmental force on the planet.
Staņislavskis hopes the project will help people to realise that they are already closely connected with the world around them.
"All living creatures are directly entangled by respiration," he said. "All of the breaths that ever were taken on this planet are still here, no more, no less."
"Could an attunement to breath open us up to the ways we are, always already, intimately related to the atmosphere?"
The DAE Graduation Show 2021 is exhibited at Beursgebouw, Lardinoisstraat 10, Eindhoven from 16 to 24 October, as part of Dutch Design Week. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.
