PROJECTS: MorSlide

1. DATA

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Place /Date

___Barcelona, Spain

___2005 (Built)

Clients

___Jordi Ferré and Miriam Alemany

Type

___Interior Design + Product Design

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2. DESCRIPTION

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MORSlide is a system of surface panels and sliding doors, which was designed to produce a continuous enclosure around the wet core -kitchen and bathrooms- of an existing apartment in Barcelona. By hiding the programmatic subdivision behind it, this wrapper created a larger box that offered a suggestive opportunity for ornamental exploration.Given the random location of the existing doors, the challenge was to develop a three-dimensional texture that would hide the edges of each panel by emphasizing the overall continuity. ReD designers contemplated all possible positions of the sliding doors, aiming for an uninterrupted skinning effect. With that in mind, the MORSE code was explored because its three basic constituent symbols –dash, dot and space- offer endless combinatorial possibilities to create a strictly horizontal yet randomly distributed field pattern. This strategy required investigating several ways of translating the graphic pattern into a three-dimensional digital surface. Despite their identical shape, each of the panels was differentiated with a unique ornamental texture. MORSLIDE is thus another project from ReD that takes advantage of digital design and fabrication technologies to challenge standardization principles. For its fabrication, subtractive CNC machining provided viable means to produce variable relief effects, enabling multiple ways of engraving this pattern into standard plywood panels. Milling the plywood produced a new visual pattern (by exposing the colors of the wood laminations) superimposed onto the digital model. In that manner, MORSlide explores the interaction between digital and material information as a design opportunity.

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3. CREDITS

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Architecture

___ReD, Research+Design

Design Team

___M. Malé-Alemany

___J. Pedro Sousa

Collaboration

___Sarah Collado

___Katherine Jofre (Assistance)

Production

___Fustas Beltran (Barcelona, Spain)

___Absis

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4. PROJECT IMAGES

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Figure 01: Movement of the panels

(Photo Credits: Inês d'Orey / ALMAMATE)

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Figure 02: MorSlide general view
(Photo Credits: Inês d'Orey / ALMAMATE)

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Figure 02: MorSlide Manufacturing

(Photo Credits: Inês d'Orey / ALMAMATE)

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