Innehållsförteckning för Habitus #42 - Trailblazers från Habitus

What makes us so Special? In the spirit of this issue’s theme, Trailblazers, I invite you to consider the following: As architects, designers and creatives, how can we position ourselves to stand out from the crowd? Anyway, should we want to? I would suggest: Yes. Human kind is by nature creative – whether it’s our passion or profession – so it makes sense to pursue a point of difference. But I would caution against doing so at the cost of a purpose. The work of those featured in this issue, varied and spread across the Indo Pacific, was chosen for its unique approach to architecture and design as much as for its honest and responsive qualities. The architects and designers Habitus speaks to in the pages that ensue have caught…

HAY has teamed up with Sonos to offer a new edition of the SONOS ONE speaker. Driven by a mutual commitment to creating contemporary products with an eye for modern living and sophisticated industrial manufacturing, the new speaker is available in a range of colours that match perfectly with the HAY palette. sonos.com Beaumont Tiles PIER 17 collection is a plank tile range that draws inspiration from the ways that water can affect the elements of an ocean pier. A celebration of aqueous hues and a reminder of the changing organic nature of the world we live in, Pier 17 is suitable for floor and wall options alike. Delicate and proud, yet incredibly robust, it is ideal to unite elements within a space, to produce timeless and cohesive styles. beaumont-tiles.com.au…

Jeremy McLeod is adamant that this portrait not be about himself. According to the founding director of Melbourne design practice, Breathe Architecture, the industry feels like “a really tough team sport”, and the things that his practice has achieved to date would not have been possible without his “team of A players”. To put this humility into context, Breathe has arguably had the most impact on the Australian design landscape out of any firm born of this generation. Since foundation in 2001, its mission has always been clear – and more than slightly ahead of its time. When it was first launched, Breathe was one of just a handful of architectural practices that identified as sustainable. “When we built our first website we listed ourselves as sustainable architects. We were…

A shop is a place where goods are prominently displayed and then sold to interested customers. The traditional furniture showroom, like private art galleries, is really only a glorified shop. Any extra caché it has derives from the quality and selective nature of the products. But the showroom is undergoing a metamorphosis. No more is it simply about display and point of sale. Instead, it has become an opportunity to experience the products in a space specifically designed to elicit the inherent values of the products and their meanings. The new display space also aligns the products more intimately with the brands that design and manufacture them. And, crucially, because of this experiential quality, the new showroom offers the customer the opportunity to enjoy an emotional response to the product…

Distillation is an art. To distill a web of conflicting challenges to an essential but integrated design is to work towards the highest form of poetry. Masters would appear to have produced an outcome almost effortlessly, when in truth, much thought and experience have preceded a deceptively simple solution. Within the Faber Hill estate in Singapore resides the latest house completed by design team Tomas Jaramillo, Diego Molina and Maria Arango of ONG&ONG. It is their fourth house in this neighbourhood and one of their most elegantly resolved works. “Our first challenge,” says Diego during a tour of the house with Shanti its owner, “was to turn what was originally a semi-detached house into a detached one. The land size allows for this conversion and this was one of the…

Ian Moore is an architect known for his black and white palette and glass louvres, but his aesthetic is, as he says, basically about “keeping it as clean and simple as possible”. In the case of the alterations and additions to this inner suburban Sydney house, the interventions are so subtle that it is not immediately apparent that anything has been done at all. But the house quickly reveals that he has achieved a highly refined and understated relationship between old and new, respecting the past without indulging it. Sydney’s Surry Hills may these days be Trendy Central, but it has a past which its new generation of residents value as much as those who were born and raised there. It has always been a quirky suburb, mixing lowincome residential…

A new annual undertaking, each year Habitus will appoint 25 of the best, recently completed examples of residential architecture within the Indo Pacific Region. The selection will be announced in the the September issue. Celebrating the success of the Region and the launch of the special issue, Tongue N Groove hosted an evening of good food, great coversation and free-flowing champagne amongst architects, designers, architecture writers, photographers and industry enthusiasts. Habitus Living habitusliving.com Tongue N Groove tonguengrooveflooring.com.au…

CHU LIK REN SERIAL FOUNDER #40 Lik Ren is a practising architect with a multidisciplinary firm based in Singapore. He appreciates craftsmanship and the finer details that imbue each design with its unique identity. With age, Lik Ren began to prioritise nature in the design of living spaces. He admires people who have made biophilic designs a part of the main agenda today. He finds great pleasure in forest bathing. LUC RÉMOND EXPLORING CLIMATE AND CONTEXT #170 Specialising in interiors, lifestyle, architecture and portraits, photographer Luc Rémond has been capturing the raw and manicured of Sydney’s urban-meets-natural landscape for 15 years. His deep love of nature combined with a keen eye for design has helped him create a signature style of sincerity and vibrant escapism, treating each varied job with…

Concentrating on iconic Mid-Century Modernist designs in the harsh desert climate of Palm Springs, Capra Designs’ BACK TO NATURE collection is a perfect melding of nature and design; of arid deserts and green life. The Etch Pots are hand carved with indentations before being moulded; the irregularities evidence of a hand-made process. capradesigns.com The Blackened Brass finish from ADesignStudio is available on the entire range of boutique considered lighting. The finish was carefully developed through a series of in-studio testing and has been finessed to create a finish that is fresh, refined, understated and grounded in a natural palette adesignstudio.com.au…

The enduring influence of art and sculpture shaped many of her design ideas. The everyday archetypal garments that fill our wardrobes became a feast for the imagination. When the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed in 2013, killing over 1000 Bangladeshi garment workers, Jade Sarita Arnott felt devastated. It had not been her relatives who’d perished in the disaster, but the event confirmed that she’d made the right choice in disbanding her fashion label, Arnsdorf, the year before. A trained artist and fashion designer, Jade had stepped away from her business, disillusioned by the endless cycle of seasonal garment releases and the punishing pressure to constantly reinvent and re-launch. She couldn’t see how the fashion industry’s traditional working model could sustain itself. There was some measure of relief there, too, in…

If you want to give an architect the dream brief, make it as open as possible. That’s exactly what the residents of Edsall Street in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern presented to architects Gilad Ritz and Jean-Paul Ghougassian, shortly after buying their Victorian cottage in 2015. A skylight in the bathroom was one of their few design stipulations. Apart from that, Ritz&Ghougassian were free to create what they describe as their “essay on architecture” – a harmonious layering of four distinct spaces, each flowing seamlessly into the next. Trust between architect and client was vital to the success of this renovation. Owners Julien and Kristy-Lea, who share the home with their Staffordshire terrier, Zeus, had previously worked with Ritz&Ghougassian on the design of their hospitality projects, including Bentwood café in…

Faber House ARCHITECT ONG&ONG PROJECT ARCHITECTS Tomas Jaramillo, Maria Arango, Diego Molina INTERIOR DESIGN AND DECORATION ONG&ONG BUILDER Sinwah-APAC Construction JOINERY KHL Interior & Construction LANDSCAPING Nyee Phoe Flower Garden ONG&ONG (65) 6258 8666 ong-ong.com FINISHES First storey flooring Monju Marmolino. Bedroom flooring Burmese teak. Bathroom flooring black granite with bush hammer finish. Service area flooring homogeneous ceramic tiles from Rice Fields. Staircase steps and wall cladding solid Burmese teak. Walls in fair faced natural concrete with SKK clear coat finish. Bathroom walls Bianco Carrara marble and white rice granite in bush hammer finish. Bedroom walls plaster finish. FENIX laminate and spray paint plywood. FURNITURE Angel dining chairs by Bonaldo. Genius Loci sofa by Calia Italia. Febo Armchair by Antonio Citterio for Maxalto at B&B Italia. Trevi small tables by…

Internationally recognized by The Red Dot Award for Product Design 2018 and the Australian Good Design Best in Class, the TUROA VJET shower from Methven is the designer shower for the modern bathroom. Crafted from high-grade stainless steel for its durable properties as well as lack of environmentally harmful chrome-plating. While you’re showering in supreme style and comfort you can relax easy, knowing Methven designed the Turoa with material that can, in future, be collected, reused and repurposed into new products. Showering has never been so relaxing. methven.com/au Willie Weston’s latest collection of fabric and wallpaper honours the legacy of Indigenous design. Partnering with artists from Maningrida in Central Arnhem Land, the BÁBBARRA collection features original artwork resulting in a collection with a contemporary aesthetic and regionally-specific iconography. willieweston.com…

Graduating top of his class at The Architectural Association’s School of Architecture (AA), Pan Yi Cheng is very much a product of his generation. His career has taken on many guises, as he’s worked around the world, collecting essential experiences and skills, to prepare him for his ultimate endeavour: building his own design business. Time spent with tutors Chris Lee and TP Bennett early on was followed by a stint at UNStudio in Amsterdam. In 2010, four years after finishing his studies, he moved back to Singapore to start his own consultancy company with a school friend from AA, naming it PAC to service masterplans for one developer in China. “They were the scale of townships, had long lead times and were, oftentimes, speculative works. After three years I felt…

In 2009 Jodie Fried and Sally Pottharst established Armadillo & Co; a brand for the design conscious and design responsible among us; a brand who’s DNA is firmly founded on the combination of “aesthetics with ethics”. Since day dot each of their rugs has each been carefully crafted – by hand – from natural fibres and recycled materials. They have been staunch supporters of Fair Trade practices and go above and beyond supporting not only the weavers but their children and local schools, too. In particular, Kantilal Vidya Mandir School in Uttar Pradesh. Located in the Carpet Belt region of India the school is attended by many of Armadillo & Co’s weavers’ children. Naturally, their involvement and support started off slowly, and grew organically. Simple things, like giving the students…