Elastik Portfolio

“converting constraints into design opportunities”

www.elastik.net

Elastik is an architectural studio organized between Amsterdam (NL) andLjubljana(SLO) as an international network of individuals who come forward to form projectgroups according to the specific requirements of a given project or of the client inquestion; hence, the name Elastik. In this context, Elastik works independently ofvarious geographic and political borders, and as an adaptable meshwork.

Elastik BV is a Dutch company registered at the Chamber of Commerce inAmsterdam. The studio in Amsterdam is directed by Elastik’s cofounder andleading architect Igor Kebel and partnered with Freek Dech. The studio in Ljubljanais directed by Elastik’s co-founder and leading architect Mika Cimolini.

Elastik’s members have considerable knowledge in the field of architecture,urbanism and interior design, on the various scale and stage levels,for utilitarian,public and private buildings.

With the largest proportion of project located in the Netherlands and in Slovenia,Elastik also maintains its international presence. A build-up of the internationalnetwork of collaborators is embedded into the organisational scheme and theworking method of Elastik. International projects can only be realized through theaffiliated network of collaborators who share the same ambition, production anddisciplinary motivation.

These alliances do no include only architectural firms, but also marketing experts,engineering specialists, interface designers, visual gurus, and material advisors,which are joining the project think-thank at the earliest possible stage of the project.

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2010 - EFAP Award,

2010 - 2nd prize,

2009 - 1st prize,

2009 - Honorable mention,

2008 - Winner,

2007 - 3rd prize,

2007 - 2nd prize,

2006 - 2nd prize,

2004 - 2nd prize,

2004 - 3rd prize,

2003 - Honourable mention,

2002 - 3rd prize,

2002 - Audience’s Choice,

“Converging Territories” Award, Brussels - Prague

PROVADA beurs stand - architectural competition, Amsterdam

OPEN FRAME proposal at the international Ymere/NAicompetition, Amsterdam

SoundGarden , Europan competition, Maastricht

the Design Week 2008 selection for the product KT: the listeningroom, The Design Association of Japan and Dezeen, Tokyo

Area Tobacco Factory, urban-architectural competition, Ljubljana

GZ Headquarters, urban-architectural competition, Guangzhou

Nanning Science and Technology Centre proposal, architecturalcompetition, Nanning

Technological Park proposal, architectural competition, Ljubljana

Bonifika Elementary School, architectural competition, Koper

Requalification of the dismissed tobacco factory inCentola: European Centre for Emerging Creativities, Pontecagnano Faiano

School for Economic Studies, architectural competition, M. Sobota

international competition for the new Rotterdam’s cityoffice (STADSKANTOOR ROTTERDAM), Rotterdam.

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Elastik's goal is to practice architecture closer to the notion of an industrial productthat depends on a particular cultural “conditions of existence” and to develop tailormade concepts that arise out of everyday life as well as take into account the usersof the spaces themselves and their own wishes. We are convinced that architectureshall become more successful in addressing everyday desires and producingmeaning for the people that use it. This meaning is produced through interactiverelationship of products hard and soft values, hard being their material values,programs, functions and techniques and soft being the psychological values,movement in time, social clustering and management of programs.

Therefore, Elastik is orientated towards developing customized spaces foreveryday use that are comprised of the material and non-material components ofinclusiveness in which users and their wishes play an important role.

We have developed a design method called critical geometry in which thepostulates of economy, programmes with different daily routines of the varioususers and the material demands of the project, all bargain with each other on anequal basis.

The desires of the users and the geometry are composed into a spatialcomposition. Even when dealing with immeasurable, intimate, and individualvalues, we maintain to think relationally and integratively. In an indivisible process oftranslation and adaptation, the intimate world of users and their habits aretransformed into parameters and geometries, before becoming architecturallyspecific.

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source: comission 2007- ongoingclient: Thermana d.d., Laškolocation: Laško, Slovenijafacts: 195 rooms, 60.000 m2 total area, interior designProject architect: Borut Rebolj, Studio Rebeka d.o.o.

Elastik Team:Mika Cimolini, Igor Kebel, Primož Špacapan, Grega Pilih

Photos by Bogdan Zupan and Tomaz Gregoric

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Lasko, SLO, 2007-09, commerceLasko, SLO, 2007-09, commerce

Wellness Park Lasko, a part of the well-known andestablished Health Resort is extended with thewellness hotel with 104 rooms, a restaurant, a cafeand a revamped spa centre. The current capacitiesare being expanded with a hotel with 100 rooms, acongress centre, a night club, and a wedding hall.The whole project is expected to be finished in 2010.

The concept was to create lively, atmospheric andinvigorating environments that would inspirewellness and well being.

The complex is split into several parts: the spa,wellness areas with different massages andwhirlpools, hotel areas with rooms, restaurants andbars. Each area carries a specific story embedded inthe use of the materials and the color codes.

The hotel lounge is inspired by the trees and woods,rooms have different colored upholstery, massageareas are abstractly oriental. Congress facilities andmultipurpose halls, with the supporting areas, arecustomly built for the specific events and with project-specific product developments.

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source: international competition, Ymere/NAi - Jury Winnerclient: Ymere, Gemeente Amsterdamlocation: Amsterdam, The Netherlandstype: Frame Design Centre - 70 apartments, design hotel, offices, museum, shops, restaurantsfacts: ca. 15.000 m2

design: Elastik and MAT StudioElastik Team: I.Kebel, M. Cimolini, F. Dech, P. Spacapan, S. M.JansenMAT Studio: Eriko Watanabe

consultants:structure: ABT (B. Wijnbeld) and CC-Studio (G. Lindner)installation: Huygen (Ed Vonk)landscape: Cristina Politophysical model: Beatriz Pineda

OPEN FRAME


Amsterdam,NL, 2009-14, Mixed UseAmsterdam,NL, 2009-14, Mixed Use

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Eastik has won the 2009 Ymere NAi ideascompetition Open Fort 400.

According to the jury: “The Open Frame design offersa solid elaboration on the first round proposal. Thewell thought of placement and consideration for thedifferent aspects of the immediate vicinity arenoteworthy. Especially the elaboration of the facadeon the Buiksloterham side met with a favorableresponse of the jury. The terraces on this side offer anagreeable outside spaces, and have a strong spatialeffect. The proposal optimally benefits from thelocation’s qualities concerning the view, whilstsimultaneously referencing other big volumes alongthe IJ. The design mostly adheres to the statedlimiting condition, only the shape and size of thefootprint have been slightly adjusted. The juryapplauds the intelligent treaty of this complex task.”

Elastik’s Open Frame proposal offers a home for adesign gallery by FRAME Magazine within anelaborate mixed use program ranging from a hotel, toapartments, and studios. Neatly fitting into the aTA’surban plan, the approx. 15.000 m2 building isprojected on the Grasweg in Amsterdam.

Project is currently in the preparatory stage.


Amsterdam, NL, 2006, HOTELAmsterdam, NL, 2006, HOTEL

Which novelty can it be implemented into the notionof staying in Amsterdam, and how do we reallyindividualise the hotel experience with theuneasiness of the notorious Dutchness?

Themes from the Dutch landscape are transformedinto a seamless staying experience. There are threethemes: grass, sand and water that represent threemajor elements of the Dutch landscape. Aroundthese themes the hotel's light shafts and roomsaround them are formed into an immersiveenvironment. Each light shaft is equipped with aparticular (vertical) landscape. Each room has acorresponding, thematic, landscaped service wall.

BELLEVUE HOTEL

source: comission 2004-05 (completed)client: Horeca Services Wandelweg BVlocation: Amsterdamfacts: 75 rooms, 2600 m2 total area, monumental refurbishmentstructure: brickwork, composite panels, moulded MDF

Elastik Team:Igor Kebel, Mika Cimolini, Erik Kauffman, Johan van Sprundel, Aad Kromconcept: b.e.a.m

source: international competitionclient: Municipality of Mariborlocation: Maribor, Sloveniatype: New art museum, shops and restaurants, workshops, apartments and support servicesfacts: 4F of the new gallery buidling, GF + 3 floors of the attached service building, cca. 12.500 m2structure: steel skeleton, glass, concrete, composites

Elastik Team: I.Kebel, M. Cimolini, F. Dech, P. Spacapan, F. Dech

UGM


Maribor SLO, 2010, MuseumMaribor SLO, 2010, Museum

Elastik’s proposal for a new Art Gallery in Maribor isan attempt to bring art events back into the realm ofthe daily public interest. The organisational principledwells on an active roof that provides not only aconsolidation of the big urban potential of the site, butalso a radical break with the tradition of a whiteboxgallery container. It intends to offer an active dialoguebetween the inside and outside, between the art andthe city.

An active roof will attempt to make the public buildingvery public indeed. Instead of creating a gallery as anexclusive space only for ‘art lovers’, the roof is sharedbetween all users: inhabitants, visitors, curators andartists. It creates an urban link between the city andthe river, the housing and the market. Where the roofmeets the banks of Drava River there is an entrancepoint to all the programs of the new UGM Gallery: thegallery space, the library, the architectural centre, thecafeteria and the restaurant.

The roof is permeable, perforated with programmaticpockets. These are programmatic compartmentsthat bring the inside gallery programs to the outside.There, art can be on display to the whole city, creatinga connection between the gallery and the city in adeliberately blunt visual manner. From the inside ofthe gallery space, the compartments are atriums,terraces or outside exhibition spaces. They allowviews from the gallery to the city but also numerousopportunities to the curators to display artistic work.

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- internal access

The medieval city centre of Ljubljana is largelyconditioned with the heritage of famous localarchitect J. Plecnik. Is there any space for thereprogramming of the monumental area, includingthe riverbank?

Four city squares, a new city market house and thepedestrian bridge with the programmed river bank isproposed above the underground parking.

The site is dominated with the monumental arches,which are used as a main structural device andspace-forming organisation for the materialisation ofthe new buildings.

The new riverbank is converted into the habitablepromenade with public and commercial services

source: international competition, 2008client: City of Ljubljanalocation: Ljubljana, Sloveniatype: urban design and refurbishment of 4 city squares, with the new market house and the pedestrian bridgefacts: site area: 66.000 m2structure: reinforced concrete

Elastik Team: Mika Cimolini, Igor Kebel, Primoz Spacapan

Ljubljana, SLO, 2008, Mixed UseLjubljana, SLO, 2008, Mixed UseARCADES



Tirana, AL, 2005, HOUSING-RETAILTirana, AL, 2005, HOUSING-RETAIL

The skin, inhabitable in different ways for differentusers, works as an extension of the living space. Itfulfils different appropriations of the daily usage andtherefore adds quality to the living.

Apartments, offices and retail spaces, together withthe underground parking are embraced into theseamless inhabitable skin.For the inhabitants the skin works as an interfacebetween the apartments and the outside space, abalcony, a „French" window, a storage space. For theshoppers it works as a shopping window, for offices itworks as storage, well recognizable from the road.Functionally the skin performs as a filter for shadingand insulating. Since the skin is structural thepartition walls can be light and therefore changed intime, different smaller or bigger units could be madefrom the proposed unit structure, with more or lessrooms.

MISTO MAME

source: commission, 2005client: International distribution for Albania IDA FHAlocation: Tirana, Albaniafacts: 2F basement, GF + 9 floors 9500 m2, mixed programstructure: reinforced concrete, white cement

Elastik Team:Igor Kebel, Mika Cimolini, Judith Spillmann, Erik Kauffman, Eriko Watanabe


Amsterdam, NL, 2008,COMMERCEAmsterdam, NL, 2008,COMMERCE

The skin, inhabitable in different ways for differentusers, works as an extension of the living space. Itfulfils different appropriations of the daily usage andtherefore adds quality to the living.

Apartments, offices and retail spaces, together withthe underground parking are embraced into theseamless inhabitable skin.For the inhabitants the skin works as an interfacebetween the apartments and the outside space, abalcony, a „French" window, a storage space. For theshoppers it works as a shopping window, for offices itworks as storage, well recognizable from the road.Functionally the skin performs as a filter for shadingand insulating. Since the skin is structural thepartition walls can be light and therefore changed intime, different smaller or bigger units could be madefrom the proposed unit structure, with more or lessrooms.

GLOOP

source: commission, 2008client: BPF Bouwinvestlocation: Amsterdam, The Netherlandsfacts: 2F , GF + 1 floors 350, gallery-commerce programstructure: reinforced composite, steel frame

Elastik Team:Igor Kebel, Mika Cimolini, Grega Pilih and Freek Dech

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source: commission, 2002-06client: Tibaut Familylocation: Moravske Toplice, Sloveniafacts: 195 m2, semi-monocoque steel frame with infill and glass

Elastik Team:Igor Kebel, Mika Cimolini, Darja Matjasec (landscape design), Tomaz Bercic

CFD: AVLStructural Engineering: Konstat Biro, d.o.o.

This hybrid house is an endless living room whereliving takes place anywhere in anytime. This compactfloor plan has no hallways and it is conceived so thatthe house literally unfolds out of the Pannonian flat-land as its constitutive part.The house and the natural moors are inseparablyintertwined. This house is currently underconstruction in the north-east region of Slovenia. Thishybrid house is an endless living room where livingtakes place anywhere in anytime. The compact floorplan has no hallways and it unfolds out of thePannonian flat-land as its functional part. Theseamless platform in which walls, floors and furnitureare blended in, is adjusted to the daily routine of theinhabitants. The volume was designed throughparametric design tools and by using CFD analysis(courtesy o P. Tibaut, AVL) of the thermal conformassessment of indoor environments.

PANNONIAN HOUSE


M.Toplice, SLO, 2002-06, HOUSINGM.Toplice, SLO, 2002-06, HOUSING

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PONTECAGNANO FAIANO, I, 2003, MIXEDPONTECAGNANO FAIANO, I, 2003, MIXED

The city of Pontecagnano Faiano announced aninternational design competition aimed at therealization of a European Center for EmergingCreativity with the remodeling of the former Centolatobacco factory.

The new development, including 7 building blocks, issuppose to be capable of attracting andaccommodating a large number of young peoplefrom Italy and Europe.

The project integrates the refurbished buildings andnewly designed open spaces with the town, makesthem accessible to visitors and inhabitants ofPontecagnano Faiano. The existing- and newbuildings become permeable structures, blendingopen and closed spaces into a one integratedplatform for social exchange. Indoor and outdoorprograms are activated simultaneously according tothe seasonal changes thus enabling most of theproposed programs throughout the entire year.

Ex Tabacchificio Centola

source: competition, prize, 2003client: Municipality of Pontecagnanolocation: Pontecagnano Faiano, Italyfacts: factory refurbishment and commercial extensions + urban designstructure: sprayed concrete shells, glass

Elastik Team: Mika Cimolini, Gabu Heindl, Igor Kebel, Michaela Tomaselli, Tomaz PipanArupTeam: Gabiele Del Mese, John Jo HammillConsultant: Aad Krom

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Pinari - Credins Bank

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Tirana, Al, 2006-10, RetailTirana, Al, 2006-10, Retail

The new development with its program has apotential to create new urban meeting point for theinhabitants. The building is conceptually organizedaround a helix device. Through the undergroundfloors the helix provides the organization of the units,the routing for the people and the main bearingstructure. Above the ground the helix is horizontaland provides the main facade interface, but alsocombines the structure and the organization of thevolumes. The organizational platform, helix this time,is integrating programming, structure, routing andlighting.

The building works as a compact sunken plaza withthree floors of entertainment and shopping facilitiesunder the ground and two above ground floors.

Pinari

source: commission 2005client: Credins Banklocation: Tirana, AlbaniaFacts: bank GF + 1F and 3 floors of underground commercial spaces,1400 m2 totalstructure: structural concrete helix, glass, metal cladding

Elastik Team:Igor Kebel, Mika Cimolini, Tomaž Pipan, Judith Spillmann, Polona Pirnat

The competition task was to design a series ofbuildings in a newly established technological park inthe green area of Ljubljana. The proposal was basedon a principal of flexibility and repetition. We werelooking for difference in repetition in the facadeelements and floorplan arrangements of the primarilyoffice buildings.

Each building was slightly different. The repetitionenables economical rationality, the difference withincan provide specific identity of each specific buildingwithin the site. The buildings themselves weredesigned with high technological standards forinstallation, providing natural ventilation and naturallighting/shading of the office spaces.

source: International competition, 2nd Prize, 2004client: Ljubljana Technology Park Ltd.location: Brdo, Ljubljanafacts: site area: 32815 m2

total floor area: 16322m2

Team: for Maechtig Vrhunc Architects: Urša Vrhunc, Tomaž Maechtigfor Elastik: Igor Kebel, Mika Cimolini, Ursula Lavren

landscape architecture: Damjan Černe and Andreja Zapušek

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Ljubljana, SLO, 2004, OFFICELjubljana, SLO, 2004, OFFICETECHNOLOGICAL PARK



Nanning, RC, 2006, SCIENCE MUSEUMNanning, RC, 2006, SCIENCE MUSEUM

Nanning (China) is one the greenest cit of China,with clear organization of the open spacealong the oversized city roads. Can a building-likeorganisation facilitate the city publicness alsovertically and diagionally, without a thresholdbetween the inside and the outside? The organizationof the Centre is guided with the permeable flows ofvisitors, users and employees in the vertical, diagonaland horizontal direction; five programmatic attractorsare strategically positioned into the building volumein order to conduct the lively mix of the public andsemi- events. The pedestrian routing is definedwith the inhabitable architectural device of thebifurcated structural columns which are shaped withthe definitions of escalators, cinematic spaces,observatorium, auditorium and services. Sucharchitectural device is designed for the new andimaginary way of experiencing science andtechnology whilst enhancing the lively character ofthe very peculiar publicness in the city of Nanning.

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Nanning Science Center

isource: invited competition, 2nd priceclient: City of Nanning, Chinalocation: Nanning, Chinafacts: 2F basement, GF + 5 floors, 32.000 m2, museum and supportive services

B2.N: Hendrik Vermoortel, Salvatore Bono, Pieterjan Vermoortel, Abdelmajid BoulaiounStructure: Ney&partnersFacade: Van Santem &associèsTechnics: IngeniumLighting: United Visual Artists

n collaboration with Buro II, Networks

, 2006

structure: reinforced concrete, aluminium, glassElastikTeam: Igor Kebel, Mika Cimolini, Eriko Watanabe, Juidth Spillmann

source: International competition, , 2001client: Municipality Rotterdam,Location: Rotterdamfacts: 25.000 M2, monumental refurbishment and new extensions, housing, offices, commerce.stucture: steel skeleton, glass and reinforced concrete

Elastik Team:Igor Kebel, Marc Prins, Mika Cimolini

Award of the publicthe Netherlands

Stadskantoor Rotterdam


Rotterdam, NL, 2001, MIXEDRotterdam, NL, 2001, MIXED

How to create a democratic and open concept ofscale-less exchange between the city's offices- andcitizens, between the existing- and the new, betweenindividual- and public programs? Due to a primarilypublic function of Rotterdam's city hall, a democraticand open concept is achieved by programming SKRinto a flexible sharing- and exchange platform withcarefully blending the existing programs, events andinfrastructures into a new mixture of multiple urbanevents (working, living, shopping, consuming,recreating and educating). The organization isprogrammed

so that it can operate around the clock inorder to activate new urbanity within the entire urbanblock.

in time according to the shared interestof the users


ž, , 2007,Beli Kri SLO RESIDENTIALBK DISTRICT

source: invited competitionclient: žbe d.o.o., Ljubljanalocation: ž, Sloveniatype:urban design andfacts:site area: m2total floor area: m2

structure: reinforced concrete

Elastik Team: Igor Kebel, Mika Cimolini

GPG NaloBeli Kri

residential units12.32010.412

The proposal for the residential complex on Beli Križconsists out of 12 individual private villas and anappartement building on the Northers part of plot,close to the TV antenna.

The proposal is based on preserving the unique andspectecular view over the Piran bay for all theappartements and villas. The appartement block isconceived as multi-storey row houses with individualstairs and entrances to each appartement. Tomaximize the floor area, communal communicationis reduced to minimum. The staircases are from thecommunal open area, allowing views and creatingnarrow streets with traditional istrian village likecharacter. The individual villas are semi detached,narrow long volumes, following the terrainstopography. Also the villas are concevied accrodingto the views allowing the best possible view to the seafrom each floor and each room in the house. Eachvilla has a green roof, a garden (with a pool),an inneratrium and several terraces as an extension of theinner living area to the outside.


Ljubljana, SLO, 2007, URBANLjubljana, SLO, 2007, URBAN

The existing site is characterized by large volumes ofa former tobacco factory in pavilion like urbanarrangement. About half of the buildings representindustrial heritage and are monumentally protected.These buildings will be revitalized by the newprogram and additionally about 150.000 m2 of newsurfaces, mostly housing, hotels and commercial willbe build. The size of the area and proximity to theLjubljana's city center makes this development veryattractive and important for the urban image of thecity.

The new volumes are attached to the existing ones;the existing urban morphology is maintained. Heightgradation of the new volumes is being proposed,from the lower existing volumes in the south towardshigh volumes in the North West in order to enablebest possible insulation of all the apartments. Thegradation also opens up the possibility for highquality views towards the Ljubljana's Castle and thegreen Barje in the south. Such volume gradationfinally makes roof terraces possible for theapartments on the top, green areas on the roofs ofthe buildings are also for children's playgrounds andrecreation areas for the hotels. The hotel and othermixed service buildings with its dynamic appearanceare a “kinetic” interface towards the city. They createand urban and public connection, especially with thehigh volume, a marker, in one of the busiestconjunctions in Ljubljana.

AREA TOBACCO FACTORY

source: international competition, 3rd prize, 2007client: Imos and city of Ljubljanalocation: Ljubljana, Sloveniatype:urban design and refurbishment of an old tobacco factoryfacts:site area: 80.000 m2total floor area: 200.000m2

structure: reinforced concrete

Elastik Team: Mika Cimolini, Igor Kebel,with assistance of Eriko WatanabeLandscape: Andreja Zapušek and Damjan

Ursula Lavrenčič,

Černe


Guangzhou, RC, 2006, OFFICE-HOUSINGGuangzhou, RC, 2006, OFFICE-HOUSING

With 360.000 m of the building program the newplanning area of Guangzhou is about to rapidly growwith the companies from the field of ICT andadvanced industries.

The ecologies of finances, phasing policies,branding values and marketing strategies areincorporated into the developed of the urban designwhich is borrowing a principle of mass customisationfrom the industrial design practices. 11 differenttower prototypes are offering a range of developmentpossibilities while maintaining the urban policy of thecar-free areas, green and open reception lobbies andlandscape-extended commercial areas. streetfacades

the tenants or owners.Facade interfaces are integrating the passive aircooling shafts, split level floors for the sociallyengaged environments and showrooms or meetingrooms for the companies.

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in collaboration with Buro II.Networks and SUM

source: invited competition, 2006client: City of Guanghzou, Chinalocation: Guangzhou Chinafacts: urban plan of 360.000 m2 of mainly offices and commerce, services and residencesstructure: reinforced concrete, aluminium, glass

Elastik: Igor Kebel, Mika Cimolini, Tomaz Pipan

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B2.N: Hendrik Vermoortel, Salvatore Bono, Eriko Watanabe, Pieterjan Vermoortel, Jeroen Beerten, Wang ZheSUM: Jan Jonas

The Design Association of Japan together withDezeen picked MAT and Elastik as one of the winnersof a competition connected to 100% Design Tokyo.

KT: the listening room is an installation specificallydesigned for the Tokyo Designers Week 2008. KT: thelistening room attempts to create a personal audioexperience in a secluded and private space in theturmoil of a high-profile design event in the heart ofTokyo. Within the listening room the distinctionsbetween acoustic, structural and ornamental fadeinto a singular integrated personal space.

After about 4000 individual visits in five days of 100%Design Tokyo, KT: the listening room container will beshipped to Europe, where future developments andpublic presentations will take place.

Design: MAT Studio and ElastikConcept: Joy Ride EnterprisesAccoustic Design: Derek Thompson (Arup Melbourne)Co-production: Joy Ride Enterprises, MAT Studio, Elastik and DechnologyPhoto: Keibun MiyamotoSpecial thanks to: Masatsugu Kitamura, Majelle Wams, Yasuyuki Sakuma, Hideo Terui, Tatsuya Ishiwara, Tsutomu Nogawa, Kaori Ishiwara,Tomoko Taniguchi, Ayako Kumabe, Takeshi Mukai, Eiki Watanabe, Kayoko Watanabe

Source: competition, 2008Client: mixedLocation: Tokyo, JapanFacts: 20 ft container converted into a listening frameStructure: corrugated fiberboard and compressed polystyreneSponsors: the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Tokyo, Japan, Marantz Consumer Marketing Co.,Ltd, B&W (Bowers and Wilkins),Prime21 Co.,Ltd (MultiCut-Tonbo), Daiichi Foam Co.,Ltd, Rengo Co.,Ltd, Doi Kougei Co.,Ltd, CIA Inc., The Brand Architect Group


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The request to make a design functional for sellingpurposes and to create a great consumer experience- as well as having an amazing, unique and veryspecial design was client’s initial commissionbriefing to Elastik. This is a second shop that Elastikhas designed for Lara Bohinc. The first collaborationwas the show room and a temporary shop on HoxtonStreet, the second shop on Sloan Street is anevolutionary step forward.

Both shops are conceived around a threedimensional space-forming device that works as alighting and holding element, but also provides aninterface between the shop and the user of the shop.The experience for the shopper is translated into ageometry by using the repetition of one threedimensional device, a modular wall element madefrom vacuum pressed Kerrock element.

Combination of materials in black and gold color,maybe an unusual decision for the small space,provided an extremely luxurious touch and feel of theshop. The idea was not only to hint to luxury, ancientcultures and hidden treasures but also to create anunusual space without shadows. The only shadow isthe one of the items displayed on shelves, vitrinesand the jewellery table. This enables all the shinyjewellery items to stand out in a glamorous way.

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location:type:facts:structure: vacume pressed kerrock

Elastik Team:Mika Cimolini, Igor Kebel, Tomaz Pipan

2007-08client: Lara Bohinc International

London, United Kingdomlifesstyle and fine jewellery store20m2

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Lara Bohinc e, Sloan Street London, UK, 200 , RETAIL8

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source: commission, 2002/03client: Groseljlocation: Ljubljana, Sloveniafacts: interior refurbishment, 2 floors, 150 m2, bar and shopStructure: laminated wood, moulded plywoodElastik Team:Mika Cimolini, Igor Kebel, Luz Rodriguez

Production Management:Lesnina MG Oprema

Can a tradition of a chocolate consumption becomean urban experience of mixed programs thus fordifferent target groups?

The refurbishment of the Chocolate Shop Angel andconversion of the cellar was completed in October2003. The existing space is divided into seamlessdistinction between the bar and the shop, enablingdifferent spatial appropriation clockwise.Due to the specific location in a city of Ljubljana, theinterior rituals is broadcasted onto the window-shopsfor making the individual chocolate pleasures urbanand exposed.

CHOCO-BAR ANGEL


Ljubljana, SLO, 2003, RETAILLjubljana, SLO, 2003, RETAIL

source: commission, 2002client: Lara Bohinc 107location: London,facts: interior refurbishment, 35+60 m2structure: fiberglass textile on CNC MDF boards, moulded plexi

Elastik Team:Mika Cimolini, Igor Kebel, Simon Matthews

United Kingdom

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The scene of buying and experiencing the LB107 isbased on the split between the known and the(un)expected. By constructing the individual, the(un)-expected, we changed Lara's way of creatingthe intimacy between the final user and the jewelleryinto a geometrical feature. The interior for thejewellery and accessories shop overcomes theproblem of a ‚shop without a shop window' by turningthe customer's visit into an experiential journey. Itcombines elements of a shop, an exhibition spaceand a place for intimate social events - to create"Lara's secret garden".

The experience was translated into geometry bydematerializing the walls using membrane fabrics.These stretched fabric panels act as jewellerysupporters, light diffusers and interfaces between theshop and the visitor.

London, UK, 2002, RETAILLondon, UK, 2002, RETAILLara Bohinc Shop at Hoxton


source: comission, 2003client: Sissi and W139 Gallerylocation: AmsterdamFacts: site-specific installation designConcept: Sissistructure: wood and MDF

Elastik Team:Igor Kebel, Francesca Sarti, Ek van Rosendaal, Mika Cimolini


Amsterdam, NL, 2003, ARTAmsterdam, NL, 2003, ART

Elastik has constructed a mountain-like "arena" forItalian artist Sissi in W139's main exhibition hall, whichserves as the backdrop for her performance ‚TheWalk'.The space serves as the backdrop for her marathonperformance ‚The Walk' and has initiated a series ofdramaturgic concepts of gallery space invading inartist's work. The installation designs herchoreography and turns it into a geometric problem.The movement is pre-set with architectural means:the looped performance with fast movement on theramps and slow climbing on the stairs that formmountain-like configuration. It is staging Sissi'sexperience of a gallery-like space within differentdramaturgic environments: from the social galleryspace to a transformative corridor, before reachingthe intimate, smooth, white, vertically climbinglandscape.

SISSI INSTALLATION at W139

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