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Lightweight fabric. The lightweight fabric work, performed by Ivan Juarez Mexican architect of x-studio, is to initiate a dialogue with the surrounding natural landscape of Bahia, from the creation of a light thought through the exploration of a local technical craft of textile materials used raw coconut tree leaves obtained in the same island. An interior space for personal reflection, which creates a visual dialogue between the inside and the outside landscape that borders. From the inside, the framed piece and suggests the landscape, creating a natural embroidery highlights and shadows. The limit is defined by a green skin that acts as a filter a large lattice, sieving, and fragments shadows light beams. Throughout the day, your outward appearance varies in different shades and reflections and dusk, the light dilutes its apparent solidity, becoming a framework that illuminates from within and that blends with the landscape itself. 

A temporary space thought for Ground Zero that is inspired, on one hand, by the most traditional shelter in America: the tipi, a conical  tent used by the nomadic tribes and sedentary tribal Native American. And on the other hand, its structure is inspired by the cable structure from the most symbolic NY suspension bridge: the Brooklyn bridge.

This two elements: the crane and the cone sewing shelter, will create a semi transparent space that will be generated through the light. A space delimited by multiple white cordages that, throughout the day, will vary through the different light reflections. A symbolic space, as a passable vertical sculpture, that consists on sewing the space to the supporting element through an artisan process, creating a vertical woven textile where the inner and the outer will be diluted suggesting the space and dialoguing with the nature.

A place where man can reflect, where shadows delineate always a different perception of space. An intersections between architecture and sculpture with  increasing overlaps in references, materials, and building techniques between the two disciplines.

x-studio Iván Juárez "Cone shelter" 2012

vía @parq

Inner forest consiste en una aproximación al contexto natural del paisaje noruego, en el que la relación con el entorno constituye la esencia de la obra. Una pieza que surge del propio paisaje para definir un nuevo lugar invitando a la fijación del instante ante la percepción del entorno.

Desde el interior de la pieza, la percepción del paisaje cambia, el usuario se aísla visualmente del bosque, levanta la mirada para dirigirla hacia un fragmento del paisaje que enmarca el cielo y las líneas de los árboles. Desde el interior es posible también observar el sol de media noche, un acontecimiento en el que el cielo nocturno se ve completamente iluminado por un sol de tonalidades, amarillas, rojas y naranjas.

The work "Point of view" by the great Iván Juárez of X-studio* consists on an approach to the architectural, historical and landscape context of Casale Marittimo in which the notion of time and temporality constitutes the essence of the work. An observatory- piece that emerges from the landscape. Entering and crossing the piece, the perception of the landscape changes: the visitor listens and feels each step walked over the matter. At the end of the piece a step invites to have a higher point of view from which it is possible to observe the medieval town of Casale Marittimo, its direct relation with the Tyrrhenian coast and the islands of the Tuscan archipelago: the islands of Elba, Capraia and Gorgona. A new perception occurred when the step is used as a seat in which the spectator stays in between the straw walls, isolating himself visually from the ample horizon; the glance goes towards a fragment of landscape framed by the piece, from that point it is possible to perceive the scent of the matter the sound of birds and the run of the wind. 

Hay bales create an almost metaphysical place where visitors can watch the landscape with different eyes, immersed in the totality of nature. The work integrates seamlessly in the space, with its materials found in the place, and, with it, it will vary with the changing seasons. An absolute interior that transforms the prospective of the space and immerses us in the environment. 

Iván Juárez X-studio "Point of view", Casale Marittimo, Pisa, 2011

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Mexican architect Iván Juárez of x-studio* has collaborated with the nordic artists centre at Dalsåsen and the norwegian ministry of culture to create structure from pine cones in a forest in Norway. The natural material was chosen for its symbolic connection to the surrounding area, collected from the forest floor and carefully stacked to make an enclosure. the pavilion wraps the viewer in the textures of the woods while directing the view upward through the canopy to the open sky. The piece reflects the process of creation, in which the architect walked through the groves, selecting thousands of cones to make a hand-made natural skin. Pines cones were chosen because of their connection to the local habitat and they have all been gathered from local forests. Pines cones are littered across the forest, instead of letting them disintegrate; they have been used to beautify the area. After being collected, the pine cones are stacked cautiously to make a cylindrical enclosure. This enclosure mingles into the backdrop of the woods due to its plain and all natural seem. When inside, you are compelled to look up and gaze at the sky or the top of the tall trees, as there is no other place you can look at once inside. Helping to enjoy the natural beauty around, the structure is Eco-savvy and fine looking. It blends right into the natural surroundings but still looks remarkably different from all the vegetation and tall trees in the vicinity. An even more amazing fact about this structure is that it is entirely hand-made, an astonishing nevertheless true fact. All pine cones used in the structure have been selected by the architect himself; this took a considerable amount of time and long walks through the thickset of the woods. 

X-studio "Inner forest pine cone landscape pavilion" Norway, 2011

* www.x-studio.tv