Design practice Studio Corkinho launches Still Room, a multi-purpose space inside Noorderpershuis, a 19th century piece of colossal brick architecture. We delve into inspiration behind its design ...
Design practice Studio Corkinho launches Still Room, a multi-purpose space inside Noorderpershuis, a 19th century piece of colossal brick architecture. We delve into inspiration behind its design with co-founder Cedric EtienneHow do we make inner silence and stillness attractive, vital and human? How do we redefine our perception of silence and its benefits? These questions were on Cedric Etienne’s mind while he was designing Still Room, a multi-purpose space in Antwerp’s Harbour.
He convinced the owners to let him re-design the space as a ‘sanctuary of silence’, a project conceived to visualise Studio Corkinho’s design philosophy and to serve as a practical base for Etienne, his design partner Klas Dalquist and their team. The result includes the studio’s workspace and atelier, as well as a Still Room environment forming a portfolio of sorts for the studio, conceived to present their ideas in an immersive architectural context.
His travels and experiences informed the design of the space, focusing on the eleven metre tall accumulator tower, which became a ‘monastic cell for the modern human’. The first design step for Etienne and his team was to find the right calming hues to create ‘an undisturbed transition between past and present,’ then moving on to develop a palette of materials , to convey a sensorial harmony.
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