Climate Design™ series – Wanderings by Chicago-based design studio WEATHERS investigates its ‘climatic infrastructure’ that augments and re-configures existing external micro-climates for occupation and programmatic use. The attempt is to create multiple zones (micro-climates) that pull from and alter the existing climatic context, creating distinct and definable edges, boundaries and transitions of these materials.

‘Wanderings‘ can be arranged as a public seating system that provides light and local climatic control along its surface, attractive to human touch and congregation. When the individual units are clustered together, the system intensifies in scope and area to create an inviting micro-climate that provides relief from cool night temperatures and long winter months.

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Climate Design™ - Wanderings, image courtesy of WEATHERS

+ Project description courtesy of WEATHERS

Wanderings belongs to the Climate Design™ series from the WEATHERS office. What window air conditioning units do for the domestic house, and street lighting does for public spaces by extending daylight into darkness so that activities and commerce can occur in the street past nightfall, Climate Design™ intends to do for the private garden, commercial courtyard and city park.

Climate Design™ - Wanderings, image courtesy of WEATHERS

Climate Design™ is an exterior product series that is commercially available for use in residential patios, gardens, public parks and landscapes to enhance and change the local climate of the site. The system is elastic enough to accommodate multiple climates and geographies, dehumidifying the air in more humid climates or providing warming during the cooler months of more temperate zones. This local climate augmentation can increase pedestrian activity and shopping, allowing people to use these outdoor areas over a greater period of the year by expanding and creating new local seasons.

In addition, ‘Wanderings‘ can be arranged as a public seating system that provides light and local climatic control along its surface, attractive to human touch and congregation. When the individual units are clustered together, the system intensifies in scope and area to create an inviting micro-climate that provides relief from cool night temperatures and long winter months.

Climate Design™ - Wanderings, image courtesy of WEATHERS

Aria is the new lamp designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini for Murano Due, the FDV Group brand that gives expression, through its products, to the synthesis of a meticulous research applied to the glass design and to its techniques of realization.

Aria is a refined and ethereal empty crystal bubble which fills with the light flow coming from a LED source hidden in the small canopy of white metal.

The invisible light source makes Aria a sophisticated furnishings complement with an almost immaterial presence, in which the form appears only through a captivating trick of reflections.

The calibrated and precise design, the lightness of the material and the fascinating effect of light, fit out instyle every housing.

ARIA, image courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini

ARIA, image courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini

+ Project data

Design: Massimo Iosa Ghini
Year: 2010
Company: Murano Due – FDV Group

Philippines-based architecture firm Zubu Design Associates recently has completed the interior works of the Nouveau Salon Spa.

+ Project description courtesy of Zubu Design Associates

The concept of the salon was conceived as a sublime interpretation of a hair piece as it moves creating a wall and seating spiraling towards the ceiling.

The wall blocks the view of the hairwashing area then showcases the main salon area. In the Philippines , hair is predominantly black thus the black and white strands is used all throughout the salon. This feature also creates the dynamism and movement that we would like to convey for the salon. The program consists of 9 cutting stations, 3 barber stations, 3 washing area, 4 foot spa, 3 treatment rooms, vip room.

Nouveau Salon Spa - Design concept | drawing courtesy of Zubu Design Associates

Nouveau Salon Spa - Design concept | drawing courtesy of Zubu Design Associates

Nouveau Salon Spa - Layout Plan | drawing courtesy of Zubu Design Associates

Nouveau Salon Spa - Section | drawing courtesy of Zubu Design Associates

+ Project credits / data

Title: Nouveau Salon Spa
Client: Regal Innovation Concepts
Architect: Zubu Design Associates
Project Team: Buck Richnold Sia, Michael Litang, Chris Gelbolingo
Location: 2nd Flr the Aalk Asiatown IT Park Cebu City Philippines
Area: 150 sqm.
Design stage: 2008
Completion: 2009

+ All images and drawings courtesy of Zubu Design Associates