SPACE10 Launches Beyond Human-Centered Design Pop-up in Mexico

SPACE10, the impartial analysis and design lab of IKEA, launched a 14-day competition within the coronary heart of Mexico Metropolis’s Roma Norte district. The pop-up – designed in collaboration between spatial design lead Kevin Curran and inventive studio Niños Heroes – reworked LOOT, a gallery house that consists of two foremost configurations, into an exhibition space and an workplace house.

Going down till April ninth, 2022, the collaborative platform explores how design and expertise could be a highly effective pressure to create a greater on a regular basis life for each individuals and the planet. The house was meant to echo the streets of Mexico Metropolis, which served because the schematic for the spatial design. Each object and materials options are versatile, together with a sequence of floor-to-ceiling curtains that divide the house into three separate configurations when wanted.

Every part from the supplies to processes have been produced by craftsman native to Mexico Metropolis or surrounding areas. As described by Niños Heroes, “We used solely a handful of supplies and processes: pine wooden, steel and soldering, nails to arm and simply disarm the practical items, material that creates synergies between the 2 foremost areas. We tried to make the whole lot so it may be deconstructed and reused.”

Images by Alejandro Ramírez Orozco.

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