Showroom Uniscala Interiores

Interior remodeling space for commerce and services with 400m2.

Howe
Is identifiable by its clean lines, forward design and advanced quality. All the products are stackable and transportable, which makes it easy to store and to reconfigure a certain space.
In this way, a space can be fully reorganized, with the help of the of the transport dolly.

Lightness
"Kundera moves the duality of weight and lightness to an existential perspective, mixing it with the problem of the human freedom with an approach to the problematic of the existentialism.
To Kundera, lightness means freedom and disengagement.
The character Tomas is a metaphor through which Kundera illustrates the existential consequences of the commitment and freedom to any situation."
In: Wikipédia, The Free Encyclopedia
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Concept
Our Proposal is structured within a key concept; the idea of lightness.
Through the poetics of Milan Kundera's book, we can associate the term lightness with the term freedom.
At the same time, wishing a “contemporary place”, a place capable of responding to different space organizations, we are wishing a free place, an uncompromising place. It is this kind of space, with and as an architectural quality, the target of the Howe label.
Finally, as to its design, would not be Howe also a light label?
We think so.
As an example, note the extreme lightness of the 40/4 chair whose thickness/diameters are between 9 and 13mm.

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Credits:

Project: Showroom Uniscala
Location: Perafita, Matosinhos, Portugal
Date: 2008/2009 (Competition) 2009 (Construction)
Client: Uniscala
Architecture: Cláudio Vilarinho
Collaborators: Filipe Lemos, João Sousa
Builder: Área Pronta
Photos credits: Cláudio Vilarinho + Uniscala + João Ferrand (Photos 7 to 16)