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International design and innovation office, Carlo Ratti Associatti (CRA) uses a Ficus tree as the fulcrum of a progressive residential design in Parma, Northern Italy As the first step of CRA’s 2017 winning master plan for Mutti, a tomato company, which calls for a closer integration between nature and the built environment, the designers present a project that disrupts conventional demarcations between rooms and floors; offering instead a stepped-plan that breaks away from a stereotyped typology. The under-renovation farmhouse stands with its program organised around a 10-metre-high Ficus religiosa growing within the main living area. Using a stepped format, encircling the tree, a sequence of interconnected rooms give rise to six domestic spaces – three above the entrance, three below it - each dedicated to a specific activity viz., practicing yoga, listening to music, reading, eating together, sharing a drink, keeping a wine cellar and storing dry cured ham for aging. Each space is a...

Interior design is an art that is tailored to a lifestyle. Patil Design Studio uses this art to chisel a simple yet elegant home in suburban Mumbai – personalizing it to the individual tastes of the homeowners… Working on the premise of a contemporary, spacious-looking, easy-maintenance home, the designers play with individual needs to craft a unifying space. Taking individual preferences into consideration, different colours are used for different rooms. For instance, the living room displays a predominantly dark blue palette; the kitchen is sparkles in a refreshing combination of burgundy and white; the daughter’s room in shades of cheerful pink and purple; the son’s in bumble bee yellow and royal blue, whilst white and olive green anoints the master bedroom. Unifying the entire schematic is simple beige 2x2 tiled flooring. Perhaps, a reason why one sees a deliberate attempt at visual continuity viz. patterns on wardrobes, cabinets and doors in the bedrooms, establishing a sustained ...

Many factory owners wonder about the reasons why they need to clean their equipment, heavy machinery and other items. It is an understandable question, as factor owners want to save money everywhere possible. They will assume that cleaning is only providing an aesthetic benefit. But the truth is that many machines and heavy equipment end up running better when they are clean. While we may notice the cleaning has added a new shine to the outer surface, deep cleaning also means that any dust and contaminants that are in little crevices of the machines will go away. And when those dust and contaminant particles are gone, the machines can go back to running the way they did a few years ago. It is why we always recommend that factories and industrial locations go through a deep cleaning every few years. And one of the best methods for such cleaning is abrasive blasting in Melbourne. What is Dustless Blasting? Most factory owners have heard about sandblasting. They know that is an option for...