PORTFOLIO DASHA SPASOJEVIC
2012
ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS GRADUATION PROJECT / SAVAMALA CIVIC DISTRICT
RUMOR CROSSROAD is a master project completed in studio of professor Ivan Kucina, at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. The task was to design a civic district in devastated Savamala. The location is one traffic gap – a site positioned next to the river on one side, and to the transit road on another. Design process consisted several parts: urban analysis of the location; subjective observation of the relations and their textual interpretation; spatial relations extracted from three poems (from Virgil, Ovid and Geoffrey Chaucer) about fame and rumors, translated into 40 drawings. Experiences from several workshops in Savamala provided data based on conversations and interactions with the local community. Myth and rumor were recognized as main principles that create relations (excuses) for the communication inside the neighborhood – two neighbors may become close when they discuss their private stuff indirectly, by gossiping about third neighbor. A research of the rumor phenomenon, as a sociological and psychological need and, on the other hand, a research of the relations in Savamala, synthesized in complex program of a car park. The object is concrete core, a slope which enables cars to pass and park inside the whole structure. There is a constant overlapping and intersection of the slope and variety of contents whose characteristics, program and position initiate rumors: conversation and communication. Contact zone between ground floor and slope is excited and undulated as a filter zone towards river bank. The physical content of the structure can be described by a formula: walk in woods + cafe + restaurant + skate ramp + vertical bench + elevators + roof table + car repair + housing + car wash + supermarket + beauty salon + music studio + scene + storage + offices = civic district, but its manifestation is much more than this sum.
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movement structures 1 - pedestrian zone 2 - skateboard long halfpipe 3 - skateboard jumping poligon 4 - caffe/ restaurant garden 5 - the best view vertical bench 6 - not just a ramp 7 - roof exit 8 - elevators 9 - caffe/ restaurant 10 - caffe/ restaurant special table 11 - service centre/ security 12 - auto repair shop 13 - food court warehouse 14 - appartment 15 - car wash 16 - beauty salon 17 - music studio/ stage 18 - food court 19 - offices “Hidrotehnika-Hidroenergetika”
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1 - provozni, zaštitni betonski sloj ugrađen u padu - sloj za odvajanje - bitumenska hidroizolaciona traka - AB ploča 25 cm - parna brana - termoizolacija 10 cm - plafonska ploča, gips-kartonska 3 cm 2 - klasična zid zavesa 3 - epoksi pod - cementna košuljica 4 cm - parna brana - termoizolacija 10 cm - hidroizolacija - AB ploča 25 cm 4 - provozni, zaštitni betonski sloj ugrađen u padu - sloj za odvajanje - bitumenska hidroizolaciona traka - AB ploča 25 cm 5 - epoksi pod - cementna košuljica 4 cm - hidroizolacija - AB ploča 25 cm - šljunak 10 cm - nabijena zemlja
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ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS GRADUATION PROJECT / SAVAMALA CIVIC DISTRICT everything can be seen from the place you see from here comunications for flying rumors/ for listening/ for watching at the junction of the worlds decomposing the space everything can be seen and heard from here ground level: pointy/ unnoticed/ small/ unseen
different elements that make countless sections - contacts
excuse - something that provokes comunication, climbing, motion above the space where one can see and hear all
sections are meeting points interference is the same as permeability
another listener/ another spy
excuse - something one waits in a line for/ - routine - something that enables undisturbed conducting of other activities simultaneously watching / observing / listening / storytelling / encountering / mongering / understanding / sharing/ grouping / separating / thinking / identificating / pairing / access - distributed with respect to “excuses�
house is not a labyrinth/ countless directions run through the house/ knot of informal communications/ house is a big door
platform that collects all the sections/ platform is the lowest common denominator of two elements
organization of each platform, including the ground floor, is based on the following principle: define excuses, then determine the approaches that are related to them so that the platform could become a "space between", without direct activation.
different modes of movement ask for a different entrances house itself seem to move due to different king of motions house is wide open
intersections between the elements are meeting points, and they make a platform/
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entrances are the result of different modes of movement, and are directly related to the excuses/
therefore, the platform is a set of intersections between the different elements/
excuses will be the points between which the movement happens/
platform must contain in itself the mechanism of permeability/
this movement will be directed in a way of access to the platform, which will further activate the entire platform
platform has to regulate its own permeability with respect to the elements excuses/ principle of selective permeability/
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communications are not only verticaly oriented, and are different with different "entrances" into the house
excuses are the elements that overlap, interbreed and intersect
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2012
ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS URBAN HYBRID / ART AND CULTURE SPACE
Project of dislocation of Belgrade railway station started back in 1977. Traces of the started structures are visible on the site Prokop, designed as new infrastructure knot. This is a project of exploitation of the concrete slab that was poured in 1996. and not used ever since. The system of temporary structures is programmed as some sort of nature museum. Prokop is a place in Belgrade where one sees the highest number of different species of birds. The project is headed by satisfying the needs and providing the living conditions of urban birds, and the design of their encounters with people. The project also explores the staircase as an element that provokes vertical spatial relations (like flying).
FOR FLYING WITH BIRDS
FOR UNDERGROUND SCENTIST WHO EXPLORES THE SKY FOR FAMILY WALK
SNOWING HILL
FOR INTIMATE TALK
FOR INTIMATE TALK
RAMP
TOILET
FOR BIRDS AND SCIENTISTS
FOR KEEPER
FOR CURIOUS ONE WHO GETS OUT IN THE WRONG PLACE AND FRIGHTEN THE BIRDS
FOR INTIMATE TALK
TOILET FOR SPEAKING OUT FOR SPEAKING OUT
FOR CLIMBING
FOR WATCHING AND LISTENING FOR SPEAKING OUT
FOR SPEAKING OUT FOR BIRDS AND SCIENTISTS
FOR SPEAKING OUT FOR SPEAKING OUT
FOR UNDERGROUND SCENTIST WHO EXPLORES THE SKY
FOR KEEPER
FOR FAMILY WALK FOR SPEAKING OUT FOR KEEPER FOR UNDERGROUND SCENTIST WHO EXPLORES THE SKY FOR BIRDS AND SCIENTISTS
FOR BIRDS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CLIMBING
2011
ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS MIND MARKET
This project was created as a research of a design process. What influences architect’s way of thinking when he designs an object (beside all the guidelines he has to consider)? Where does creativity comes from? How can we enable ourselves to invent something new? Can we cross the limits of our learned knowledge? The location was selected at the beginning, and 13 different programs that would be interesting to deal with. For each program I wrote a text – it was an attempt of catching the unconscious, subjective, uncontrolled flow of thoughts, similar to surrealist texts. From each text I chose one sentence, then mixed it randomly with a sentence from another text, and then wrote a new text based on these two. This process was repeated until I ended up with the final text, which is a program for a selected location. Near the selected location there is a big and famous flea market, with its formal and informal part, that has to be relocated due to a construction of a new road. This project infers using the space under the railroad overpass by a multiplication of its columns membrane. The new columns are empty inside and by a different transformations they become a different types of market stands, and parts of market infrastructure: a fountain, info point, bench, toilet, stairs for orientation. When the new columns “close”, the whole space becomes a gallery, event platform, etc.
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Membrane is a thin limit between two worlds. The difference is just a different interpretation of things. From different levels you understand things multifariously. If you take something apart while thinking about something else, the thing you get can be a completely new machine. If there is a window on the membrane, it must be a mixing zone. Stratification is just the variety of differences. Everything you keep serves to put you together. Do not make gaps in the way of thinking, but mixtures. Everything is granulated underneath the ground. Air wall is stronger than a brick wall. If you jump from field to field, you are inside the boundaries, and never in a field. The space is what you mark as a border between finiteness and infinity. The birds use a wind for flying. The sound expanding is like a wave flowing in the sand. Being in a sand is different thing – instead of being underneath the earth, you are underneath the sea. When you travel, you have to travel all the way - both face and reverse sided. The new possibility is just an excuse for a failed opportunity. The whole object is made by knitting the thoughts around all its elements. The system of knots can make the whole suit. Seeking is not having a goal. When you look for an entrance, you may jump to all sorts of things. Playing with windows is dealing with under and above the ground. A window looking inside the ground must not be a showcase.
2011
ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS STUDENT HOUSING
The leading idea was to interpret the phenomenon “existence of the non-existing” through a student housing project. Students are characterized as a nomadic group, and as such they are connected with their house and home by the thoughts that they carry with themselves. The idea was to make a project out of changeability, of something that each individual may recognize as his own. It should contain the possibility to manifest itself through the different approach of each user. The result is a flexible system that enables a variety of spatial and functional experiments. That system would become capable to integrate different programs inside itself. TRAIN=BUILDING GROUND FLOOR
COMMON SPACE PUBLIC/PRIVATE CONNECTION PRIVATE SPACE OUTSIDE/INSIDE CONNECTION
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2012
COMPETITION AC-CA COMPETITION / CASABLANCA SUSTAINABLE MARKET SQUARE
We perceive a marketplace as a living organism, determined by temporal routine. Like every other periodical event, all actions are happening at specific time by occupying a distinctive space. With this project we tried to design a new body at the specific location, with a higher degree of autonomy - in terms of independent actions happening at the same time (multitasking), or autonomy that allows the creation of new actions with the termination of the primaty ones (sleep mode). The body is the area of communication it is a horizontal labyrinth of passages. Each passage is a consecution of points, and each point is a cell with its own cellular metabolism (stand). Out intention was to create a possibility for countless combinations of passages. By lifting the service zone five meters above the ground, the ground floor is set completely free. In the morning, 42 stands are setting down from the construction, and the market day begins. In the period when there is no market, buyers and sellers, the entire area can still be a football field. By lifting the service zone five meters above the ground, we created a spatial frame work for additional features that can come along with the market. Above the service zone, there is a cafe space, children playgound, amphitheatre.
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COMPETITION 2012 VENICE BIENALLE PROPOSAL: LET’S MEET!
Project directly sets question of unity in the modern city as a physical platform (a level). If we want to reach it, to climb on it, we must put an effort. The very act of climbing is brought to the absurd in order to wake us up, to encourage us to think about "our" common field. There is no field , even common one, whose existence negates the existence of other fields. The project uses ambiguous spatial relations (formed by basic spatial elements - ground, wall, roof ), to arise actors/ space users self thinking. Entering the pavilion one gets excited by a change of dimensions. If dimension - the basic tool of Architects - is understood as a relation between things, the situation in which the dimensions around us are suddenly changed may provoke the change in our relation to the things around us. Climbing on chairs, and sitting down (up) at the table is the main condition for the beginning of conversation. However, the person sitting on the opposite side, despite being at the same table, is too far away. "What is this table? How to overcome this distance?" Another aspect of the conversation at the table takes place underneath it. By putting a head through the hole in the table, we are participating in a very intimate talk. We can whisper, or even talk only with our eyes. Table top literally divide the situation of talking in two levels: on the table and underneath it. Only when we understand who we are, we will be able to identify with another person, and vice versa - when you know the other, you wll be closer to yourself.
2012
COMPETITION HERNESAARI URBAN FURNITURE CONTEST Marine rope (r=3cm, l~1400 cm)
Steel ring (r=6cm) x 26
Tarred pine wood (120/30/20cm) x 13
Rubber roll ( ~ 1cm thk /6.2/20 cm) x 26 Tar paper
Tar paper
In the plane I am bored. I am walking, walking, walking... and it is just the same. Sometimes there are waves, but essentially it’s straight. Sometimes there are ships, but essentialy it’s straight.
Reinforcement bars Concrete base (390/20/80) Layer of gravel (d=20cm) Excavated hole (390/60/100cm)
Sometimes there are people from the ships, but essentialy it’s straight. And sometimes it is not. Sometimes there are stairs. Sometimes you sit on them, sometimes you observe from them and sometimes you fly through them, but essentialy it’s straight. And it is good that way.
2011
COMPETITION STAR-HOUSE COMPETITION 1ST PRIZE WINNER/ HOUSE FOR NICOLAS SARKOZY
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Who is Nicolas Sarkozy? Bottom line is –we are all human. If we are humans, we live. If we live, we need a house, a place where we live. Who is Sarkozy, how does he manage his everyday functions? How does he brush his teeth? On which side of the bed does he sleep? Does he eat breakfast, when he’s alone, in the same way as he eats in restaurants? He actually has two sides of personality. The function of president has grown so important that it’s as important as his humanity. Behind his every actions is government, senate and the entire French people. He lives the life of the president and he just lives - Two parallel realities. In his house are two living rooms. They are exactly the same. The difference is, or better said, the difference could be the things that he does in one and another. For his house exterior is completely irrelevant. On the outside are informations, days that are past. On outside, this two rooms are the same, because they are in the same shell. Only he knows which room is for living and which is for being a president and in which moment. Both are equally important and relevant. They are identical. They are mapped, and he chooses the moment when he will walk through the mirror into his own world that is beyond our reach… Walls in that house do not exist. The only things that exist are corridors between parallel worlds. His duality is what is building the house and what is dividing it.
2013
WORKSHOP/ACTION CITY ACUPUNCTURE BELGRADE> THE NEW STREET PROJECT
The City Acupuncture project was initiated by the Association of Zagreb Architects, and included five cities in four different south-eastern European countries (Skopje, Beograd, Zagreb, Sarajevo and Split). Over 250 young professionals were involved (architects, graphic designers, psychologists, sociologists, art historians, artists, economists), as well as a large number of people from local communities in each city, all of whom gathered with the aim of pinpointing small solutions - just like acupuncture needles – in an attempt to explore life in each city and feel its pulse. The workshops produced small, spatial intervention projects designed to activate public spaces and engage citizens in those spaces. I was involved in four of five workshops, in Belgrade as a participant, and in others as a mentor. Project New Street is a statement that we, young architect, are trying to leave in public space. We have found and recognized a void, leftover - a mistake inside an informal row of houses on the river bank, that is being used as only pedestrian passage to the river. Instead of taking this place away, putting a fence and clame it private, we are naming it as a STREET, and putting it on Belgrade map. We are trying to leave a message for planners, and show to the residents and neighbours that public space san be perceived as space that belongs to everybody, instead of nobody’s space. site> http://cityacupuncture.org/ blog> http://novaulica.tumblr.com/ movie> http://vimeo.com/52250272#at=0
2013
WORKSHOP/ACTION CITY ACUPUNCTURE ZAGREB> PLAYGROUND IN TREE POT
City Acupuncture project in Zagreb is also a recognition of specific usage of public space. Inside a city quarter built in modernistic period, we have found an improvised playground. On a concrete slab designed as a parking lot between building entrances, there is an empty tree pot that children use for playing. In a communication with the residents we have made an agreement that cars will not park next to the ‘playground’. Children have told, drawn and showed us their favorite games and we made a project that would suit them the best. In this project design was used as a support for activity, not as a goal. Designing a playground was just an excuse to bring people together and show them how easy it is to make a positive change, using only the tools you have, and things that surround you.
2012
WORKSHOP/ACTION A SENCE OF PLACE
This project is a workshop result organized during the MIKSER festival, in 2012, by Failed Architecture team. Who are the people who actually live in Savamala, along with the traffic and busy night life? How does it look like to spend every day in such a devastated area? We entered one of its inner courtyards, inside one of the residential buildings of a historic importance. None of the people living there does not see this space as a common value, or as a place of interest. They use it as a parking lot. How to transform this parking space into a place people love and care about, use and enjoy in everyday life? We have spent there a couple of days and the conclusion was that the only way to activate courtyard is to encourage residents to use it together. Common space can be created only as a result of relationships among people who are using it. Beside the series of small interventions (coloring the entrance, making a chandelier, inventing a scenography for an event, axonometic drawing of a building with the stories about the apartment units residents have told us), we have asked all the residents to borrow us any table they can, for our final presentation, and we have also invited them to come. We made a table-mosaic, out of them all (and they were all different color, dimension and shape), and we brought some food, drinks and music. The conversation has started, they were all together for the first time as they remember, laughing and enjoying summer afternoon. In this moment, we were not at a parking place, but inside an inner courtyard in a residential building. Memory of this event certainly made a change in perception of possible space usage. This experience has affected me personally, because I have witnessed the purpose of participatory design for the first time, and saw something I did not thought was possible. This situation was an evidence of the importance of a role of an architect in the lives of people who are actually using space, contrary to those figures that we put in our renders.
About the drawing: I was standing at one spot in the courtyard from which I couldn’t see the facades, and I started to draw. Children who were playing around came to ‘help’, so we made this together: they were the eyes, and I was a hand, and only imagination was between us.
2013
WORKSHOP/ACTION SCHOOL OF URBAN PRACTICES: PROJECT C5
SCHOOL OF URBAN PRACTICES is association of citizens, initiated by professor Ivan Kucina, architect Predrag Milić and myself, that investigates field of architectural activities and role of an architect in contemporary city. The office is currently located in Savamala, and engaged in Project C5, as a part of the Urban Incubator, project of Excellence by Goethe-Institut in Belgrade. “Drawing on the evolving body of trans-disciplinary urban knowledge, urban research, and urban activism, School of Urban Practices will conduct advanced educational work that redefines design, architecture and urbanism as a field of transformative activity. Selected students will seek the ways how to improve everyday environment of the devastated urban neighborhoods whether through public policy, mediation, urban planning and architecture design, or any other forms of design that involves citizens from the very beginning of the project. By working continuously on the site for the public interest and by exchanging aspirations with local community entrepreneurs, School of Urban Practices will develop innovative strategies and projects based on critical engagement with contemporary issues of urban commons.” (http://projectc5.blogspot.com/) In Project C5, the assignment is to design inner courtyard and basement of a residential building with the participation of all the residents. They are all different, with variety of needs, interests, and capitals. Original participatory design method that is applied redirects creative process into negotiation, not only between students and residents but among the students themselves, among the residents themselves and then between architects and the residents on one side, and official institutions on the other. Participation is strengthening relationship among the residents and ensuring awareness to the mutual dependence and solidarity that is necessary to building the commons and to maintaining its future.
2012
WORKSHOP/ACTION SUMMER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Summer School of Architecture is a project started by six graduate students (Marija Obradović, Katarina Ristić, Daša Spasojević, Predrag Milić, Ivan Gradišar and Miloš Milovanović), at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade. It is an attempt of establishing a platform for research in architecture, which could provide the knowledge one cannot acquire in a regular school. It was a very complex process which included starting students initiative, formulating theme of school based on student needs and ideas, developing school program, fundraising, organizing a competition and selection of students, documentation, post production, etc. The Summer School itself was held at Petnica Research Centre, it lasted 168 hours and gathered 30 students, ten mentors, 13 lecturers, eight critics, and a lot of others. School was supported by Faculty of Architecture, and sponsored by Serbian Chamber Foundation. The school thematic frame, “Change of conditions”, is referring to a situation in which students stand for a specific type of learning contrary to a situation of inertia in regular school; a practical work on site contrary to projects on paper; research and experiment; direct and more intimate contact with mentors and lecturers; lectures and discussions from different disciplines (archeology, biology, astronomy...). Students were divided in five workshops: Lightnight, RE 1:1, Res_publica, Architecture and nature, and Petnica Outdoor Station. The finalization of project was actually its continuation – a published book Manual For Organizing Summer School of Architecture, published by Faculty of Architecture, does not only represent workshop outcomes, it is a handbook in which the whole process is explained in details, so it could be continued in future.
“Everybody thought that it was impossible, except an idiot who didn’t know that - and who did it.” Marcel Pagnol, 1895-1974
blog> http://arhupetnici.blogspot.com/ site> http://www.letnjaskolaarhitekture.com/ online publication> http://issuu.com/arhupetnici/docs/priru_nik movie> http://vimeo.com/55133821
2013
RESEARCH PROJECT A MODEL FOR SAVAMALA, GOETHE INSTITUT PROJECT OF EXCELLENCE
2013
RESEARCH PROJECT A MODEL FOR SAVAMALA
This project is part of the Urban Incubator, a project of Excellence by Goethe-Institut in Belgrade. It is started and organized by Maja Popovic & Boba Stanic, architects based in Amsterdam. Making a model is an attempt of creating a communication platform. Savamala is an area with no specific planning regulations, where bottom-up principle is at its essence. To be able to coordinate its future evolution and development, we have to find a way to understand the complexity of interactions and relations in Savamala. We believed it will be of a great advantage for the area’s development if we have an as clear as possible idea on what Savamala is made of, its activities, what are the interests involved and what ambitions do the different stakeholders in the area aspire to. For this reason we decided to make the area of Savamala transparent through the means of architectural representation, a 3D physical model of Savamala, relating to the sociological, economical and political facts. In its basic architectural form, the model is reflecting the history and current state of affairs in the area as well as its potential upcoming developments. It represents the existing urban morphology and typology, it goes into issues of the property structure, it indicates the intensity of commercial activities and shows where do the inhabitants of Savamala live. These data, mostly available, have never been visualized and put in relation to each other. In this sense projects ambition was to make a model that represents the current condition of Savamala: to visualize and make comprehensible what we are dealing with when talking about this area. To target the public awareness of it and (together with citizens, visitors, developers, politicians and investors) illustrate and indicate the potential this area has. project authors: Maja Popovic Vracar and Boba Stanic coauthors: Ana Ugrinic, Daša Spasojevic, Predrag Milic and Milos Kašul Nikolic producers and colaborators: Modelart Arhitekti, Studio KU+, Belgrade Soundmap sponsors: Goethe Institut Belgrade, Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture of University of Belgrade
physical structure is a compass for the model, it helps participants to orientate and shows the complexity of (in)formal physical manifestations in city space and territory; representative objects are made in specific material, to be easily recognized
archive is divided by street numbers, and it consists photos, residents stories and personal things, romantic letters, hair of cats, interviews, everything that people living or working in the area had to share with us
ground level is a connection between public and private space; it shows all the entrances, inner courtyards, every tree, commercial information, traffic research, programmatic divide
each information strap is seen as 100% of program (residential, commercial, culture, education, horeca, empty) and ownership (state-owned, company - owned, private property) of a plot it represents, and is therefore divided accordingly; different kind of symbols direct to information in the archive, restitution issues, rented space, illegal space, etc; number of a plot directs to city data base; small graph shows the number of space users during day and night
plot layer makes clear the scope of a stripe and illegal structures
a box is on wheels, so every ‘island’ (city block) can be explored separately, or in a relation to another one, or as a whole
sound layer is made of recorded stories told by people living in the area; they tell about past times, things they like or dislike, about personal histories etc.
2011
ANIMAL PROJECT CAPUT LUCIFERUM
Svetlana (lat. Caput Luciferum) is a fantasy animal, the invented story that connect fragments of real nature that surrounds us. At the same time, its existence in our world can be completely possible. All the processes inside Svetlana’s organism, and all the interactions with the environment could be real – its metabolism functions by physical and chemical laws, it is invented as completely compatible with the processes in nature. This project is a product of collaboration with Stefan Simic, who is a biologist interested in evolution processes. Svetlana can be understood as a manifesto of the design principles – it is a fictional reality, like a new program of the building is, and it becomes real only if the integration inside the processes happening around it becomes successful. Who can claim with certainty that Svetlana doesn’t truly exist, that we just haven’t discovered it yet? Who could say that the new system (the new object) which would correspond the best to our everyday life, cannot be invented? Caput Luciferum has three genders, and few life phases which are characterized by different physical and behavioral features. It has a symbiotic relationship with the humans: in one phase it receives all the energy necessary for the life processes out of electrical impulses of the brain electromagnetic field, the biggest bioelectricity generator in nature. The scientific way of thinking, based on empiricism and rationality, makes our life meaningful as our want for dreaming, and the richness of subjectivity that we carry inside ourselves.
2013
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“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst a great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Isaac Newton
“The last movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” Blaise Pascal
cover: fabric
seat cushions and supports: shaped polyurethane of various densities, polyester fiber, strap suspensors
top: laser cut steel plate, polyurethane gloss or matte lacquered
internal frame: solid wood and plywood poplar
internal frame upholstery: flexible cold-shaped polyurethane foam, polyester fiber padding
feet: chrome-plated steel, painted steel cover with fabric
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“Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.” Elvis Presley
top and body: on a lather, oak laminated timber, oiled
feet: felt dots
feet: rotation in all directions, silicone wheels
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” Coco Chanel seat cushions and supports: shaped polyurethane of various densities, covered with down-filled special fabric, elastic straps
cover: fabric, leather side shelf: wooden support oak veneered MDF
internal frame upholstery: flexible cold-shaped polyurethane foam, polyester fiber cover
feet: stainless steel
DASHA SPASOJEVIC znash.dash@gmail.com +447443 378 204 Cardiff, UK