We introduce new acoustic products that looks simple, but they are engineered by structural intelligence, being functional and beautiful at the same time. PLY PROJECT Founded by Kenichi Sato, in 2013, PLY…
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Soundscape: Flexible Wood Wants to Become Architecture
Architecture is the thoughtful making of spaces. The building of architecture relies deeply on the materials to hand and chosen by the architect. However, most architects rely on the materials they…
Flexible Wood Innovation: 12 Design Questions & Answers
It’s not really that hard to come up with new interior design by drawing curved walls and ceilings on computer screen. The hard part is figuring out how to do it…
Flexible Building Materials: 10 Ways to Ask Creative Architects
Most of the product information about building materials focuses on impressing architects by mathematical and scientific charts, graphs and statistics. However, architecture is not about rocket science or machine-made things, but…
Open-Plan Offices: Searching for Healthy Office Life
I’m sure you’ve seen it many times that our workplaces tend to be more open and many companies specifically use open-plan offices. However, I don’t recall any substantial research that claims that…
Flexible Wood Aesthetics: A Study in the Intimacy of Materiality
We have invented the first ever, flexible and responsive plywood. It looks and acts like a fabric, but is made from a sheet of plywood. Laminated with plywood and foam, machine-slit…
Transmaterial Aesthetics: Experiments with Plywood
Every revolution in architecture has been preceded by a revolution in materials. What is the next revolutionary material that will reshape the very nature of architecture? What if we were to…
Hybrid Acoustic Panels: Room Acoustics for Music
For musicians or music lovers, the most important real-world question is, “What makes a good room for music performance?” Room acoustics is a reasonable although not very useful answer. To figure this…
Flexible Furnishings: 4 Types of Architectural Programs
Flexibility has long been one of the primary architectural design solutions to make spaces adaptable over time. Which means, if you want to create adaptable spaces, you’ll need to find flexible…
Curved: Wood Ceiling Like Alvar Aalto
There is no need to waste time persuading you that curved walls and ceilings are an exciting element of architecture: we always think in curves. Siegfried Giedion in his classic work, Space,…