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SUBMITTED CONTEN T BASIC SPAC E MINIMALISM VS. MAXIMALISM INTE RVIEW 2 MINIMALIST CHALLENGE TASTY TYPE RAGE PAGE MINIMALIST FASHIO N INTE RVIEW1


NOT WHEN THERE IS

NOTHING MORE TO ADD BUT WHEN THERE IS

NOTHING LEFT TO

TAKEAWAY


There now exists in the world a house that measures one square meter. The aptly-named One-Sqm-House was designed and conceived by Berlin-based architect Van Bo Le-Mentzel as a place where “no one other than I, myself, can decide what happens with this one square meter of mine in the world. It’s the only square meter in the world where I can decide what direction the window looks in, what direction the door opens in, what neighbors I have.” It is no wonder that Le-Mentzel has become obsessed with the concept of home, as he fled his homeland of Laos as a refugee and has spent his career exploring the topic. Now, thanks to the BMW Guggenheim Lab, the young architect, budding furniture designer, and tiny home aficionado can share his vision with the world.

the project was designed for the hot Madrid summer, the team created shaded outdoor space by raising three legs of the building off the ground. The legs contain services, equipment, and water. The house is built solely of wood, cut from laminated timber

It took a contractor six months to hand-craft the ovoid shape of Blob, a guesthouse out of polyester. The interior is lined with a gridlike storage system, which also has compartments for lounging and sleeping, along with some eating space.

The idea for this house has its origins in a bike shed. a structure made of curved steel ribs and covered in semi-opaque poly carbonate. This nano house is compact living at its finest , as its sufficient for a single person-with kitchen space and sleeping area.

ROLL IT Designed by students Christian Zwick and Konstantin Jerabek as a competition entry, Roll-It is the ultimate mobile home. Not only does its barrel shape allow it to be easily transported but its interior rotates like a round Rubik’s cube.



MALVIKA TEWARI

The moon shone for her, In perfect circles for young, flushed cheeks, In diamonds for the scales of well worn arms.


“Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find away to make the product defer to you. Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.” -Jonathan Ive

When you simplify your

comfortable and right to

but by the rightness of

life, you’re cutting back

the people who use it.

what is there and by the

on the complexity of what

Minimalist design is one

richness with which this

you do and what you

of the most significant

is experienced. The works

own. Minimalism is about

design movements of

of Minimalist architects

the same things. So how

the 20th century and

like Luis Barragan,

is minimalism different,

early 21st century. It

Claudio Silvestrin, and

you ask? It’s basically an

has arguably penetrated

Tadao Ando explore the

extension of simplicity,

more fields than almost

fundamentals of space,

wherein not only do you

any other art or design

light and materials

take things from complex

trend. The reason for this

while avoiding stylistic

to simple, but you try

is because it’s more of

mannerisms. Minimalism

to get rid of anything

a principle than a visual

is where everyone in

that’s unnecessary.

style. In architecture, the

is slowly but evidently

All but the essential.

vision is comprehensive

heading. Nevertheless,

By eliminating the

and seamless, a quality of

minimalism is a style. Like

unnecessary, we make

space rather than forms;

any style, it’s not an all

room for the essential,

places, not things. It is

purpose solution to every

and give ourselves more

not an architecture of

situation.

breathing space. The

self-denial, deprivation

only universal measure is

or absence: it is defined

whether the space feels

not by what is not there,


Miracles occur when you choose to think big! Organic forms spread out across the screen, at times explosive, at times hardly noticeable, fascinating the observers. The scientific principle of complexity, as counterpart to a reductionist view of the world, has a central influence on the design scene. People tend to home in on the idea of removal, believing that it is all somehow a case of throwing out the furniture and painting the walls white. The architecture of the twenty-first century found in Maximalism the ideal vehicle through which to express the configuration of an ever-growing desire for uniqueness as well as a way of accentuating the personality of the most important architects of the contemporary world. Rather than excluding indiscriminately, focusing time, energy, and effort on more of the good things in life and ruthlessly excluding the bad. is considered being maximalism by some who choose this lifestyle. Get more of what you really want. To truly accept the idea of maximalism, one has to to be a bit of an extremist; there isn’t much room for existing “in the middle.” Being a maximalist provides a new edge to looking at things. One can avoid looking generic and develop a unique personality in their design, work or even lifestyle for that matter!




Less is more Geoffrey Gilson Barcelona, Spain


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