Buzzispace

BELGIUM

Founded in 2007
Buzzispace is a creative cell for the development of smart tools and accessories to upgrade your work and living environment. As well as a full grown commercial department, Buzzispace likes to be a think-tank for young designers and experienced business-people in which ecology and solutions are the main concern following the cradle to cradle and waste is nutrition philosophy as closely as possible.

Buzzispace
Kernenergiestraat 65
2610 Antwerpen
BELGIUM
T +32 3 820 61 20
F +32 3 820 61 21
[email protected]

Courtesy AlainGilles / TheStudio

'BuzziBlinds' Accoustical Room dividers

D E S I G N E R
Alain Gilles

P R O D U C E R
Buzzispace, Belgium
2011

M A T E R I A L A N D D I M E N S I O N S
fabric
Recycled felt
100 x 40 x 115cm (Small) (WxDxH) / 100 x 40 x 140cm (Medium) / 100 x 40 x 185 (Tall)

These rotating acoustical blinds take their inspirations from modernist architecture and more specifically from the exterior sunshades that can be found for instance on modernist buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Brasilia. And also by the rhythm and tonalities created by the orientation of these sunshades.
The concept has been turned into elements that can define and devide open-space offices.
Like in a game of hide and seek, space will be more or less visible depending on the angle they are looked at... thus changing the perception of the architecture depending on the point of view.
People will also be able to determine the level of openness they want or may need at given moment to concentrate on a specific task by rotating the different elements of the 'blinds'.

Courtesy Buzzispace
Alain Gilles

Buzzibooth

D E S I G N E R
Alain Gilles

P R O D U C E R
Buzzispace, Belgium
2010

M A T E R I A L A N D D I M E N S I O N S
fabric
1,28 x 1,22 x 2,33 meters (L x W x H) ( 50.4 x 48 x 91.7 inches )

This a micro-architecture project. It is all about recreating some privacy in a common noisy, wide, or crowded space. In today's world we have torn down most of our walls: we live in loft-like apartments and work in open-space offices.
Nevertheless, we still sometimes very much need to enjoy the comfort of some privacy. We still have to make phone calls that other people are not supposed to hear about. But we might also need to focus on our work and have to find a place where we can retrieve with our notebook for a few minutes our hours.
This is very much a new type of product addressing the problems and needs of today. This is an acoustical cocoon made of fabric in order to absorb the surrounding noise as much as possible ( it is made out of 'BuzziFelt' which is produced out of 100% recycled PET bottles). Then again, it is a very obvious and reassuring product since typologically it is very close to some very common products such as the public phone booth that has now vastly disappeared from our streets, or the typical small-wooden beach hut that tends to be a small world of its own once opened up and customized by its owner.
The 'BuzziBooth' is a tool for people and architects to play with. It is a micro-architecture which purpose is also to bring a dynamic to a space.

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