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Project: Hairywood, London/UK
Best of Category "Education/Learning/Culture"
The Hairywood project is a temporary installation in London's Old Street. The brief was to highlight the entrance to a new gallery with an installation on the theme of "Public Space". The architects, for their part, wanted to create a new public space that would make us question our ideas of what constitutes "public space". The result is an object that combines the intimacy of private space with the public street. Behind the plywood façade, perforated and softened by the architect's laser-cut "Rapunzel's Hair" design, the tower offers a place of retreat from the hardness of Old Street. The small space at the top of the tower is furnished like a fragment of a domestic living room and opens directly onto the street below, with the traffic moving constantly past. Using simple materials and quirky, playful motifs, the architects have created a warm, soft space that contrasts with the hardness and coldness of the permanent environment outside.
The jury's verdict:
"The jury was impressed by the way the project successfully blurs the boundaries between art, poetry and architecture, while at the same time obscuring the distinction between public and private space."
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