Inside Outside

The summer has started now for real! Hopefully, we have had the worst rain showers for now and it’s finally time for the sun to start shining. The overlap between outside and inside in the interior design industry already has been happening for a while. Urban jungles are created inside the house and outside they are being decorated as a second living room with rugs, cushions, benches and outdoor workplaces included. We also see a growing number of big interior brands who start to present their own exterior collection next to their decoration collection, so you can keep on using the same style for both indoor and outdoor.

Is your 2nd leaving room already summer proof? Check out the serveral inspiring examples to connect your garden and living room.

Simon Watson – Lost in time        Hay – outdoor collection

 

TINY K HOME                     ZEN GARDEN

 

Bron: Blood and Champaign

 

WOOLLAHRA

 

LE SINOPLE, PARIS             GIANNI BOTSFORD – SUTHERLAND PLACE

 

Bron: Thestylebox             Francis Brodi House 

 

ZW6                          JJLOCATIONS

 

FERNANDA MARQUES

 

PIA ENGHILD            NEUMAN HAYNER ARCHITECTS

 

INSIDE OUT           NATHAN BURKETT 

 

Restaurant Vegetal                  Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer

 

Imagine yourself in a rainforest while switching airplanes

Two years ago, I went to Bali and had a stopover at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia for 6 hours. After walking around and searching for my next flight I still had 5 hours free time. My sister told me that she had it very cold at the airport in China so I was wearing a sweater, but it was more the opposite! I’d tried to sleep at small benches but it didn’t worked out. After a while I got bored and walked along a large window. Behind that window I saw trees and I found a door. When I walked trough that door I came into a kind of tropical rainforest look a like. It was nice to imagine you somewhere else!!

A few weeks ago I found a signal on the internet and immediate I had to think about Kuala Lumpur airport again.

Singaport airport is getting a ‘Bio Dome’, they are building a large indoor park, called/named: ‘Forest Valley’. The air hub is the sixth busiest international airport in the world (architizer.com). Thousands of people have to wait and feel like wasting time before they have their next flight. With Forest valley they ensure that waiting will become a lot more enjoyable.

 The ‘Jewel Changi Airport’ is designed by Moshe Safdie, he is well known for combining nature with architecture and ‘he is still creating innovative large scale urban projects around the world to this day’ (architizer.com).

For the airport, he designed a glass dome, which will encompass a space of 134,000 square meters, and it looks a bit like a science fiction building. In the Forest valley they have different gardens and (walking) trails. In the middle of there is the big eye cather, a 130 – foot – high waterfall called ”Rain Vortex” and at night it is illuminated with light and music is playing.

Behind the glass they will have hotels, shops and restaurants. The dome is connected with the three terminals from the airport. The project will be finished in 2018.

I think this project is a great example for other airports. When you get of an airplaine you really want to get some fresh air and now you can!
It’s for instance way more effective for people that want to work while waiting for their next plane they have to catch. Trough the fresh air they feel more energetic and it makes their journey more pleasant.

 

Sites:

Moshe Safdie’s huge greenhouse for Singapore’s Changi airport gets underway

http://architizer.com/blog/inside-moshe-safdies-real-life-bio-dome/
http://www.madpac.nl/intel/jewel-changi-airport-singapore-adembenemend/