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HOLIDAY HOME
Sistiana, Province of Trieste, Italy





Something Fantastic designed a holiday home at the Adriatic sea near
Sistiana, Province of Trieste, Italy. It is composed of a common kitchen building with storage,
service and rainwater collecting roof and three individual towers. It will host six friends,
three couples, a lot of stories, tranquil leisure and culinary delights.





RAUMPRODUKTION
Exhibition design, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Exhibition design for the show Raumproduktion at Kunsthalle Duesseldorf.
Curated by Matthias Boettger (raumtaktik) the show dedicated to artists' perception
and processing of space featured works inter alia by Ingrid Hora, Julika Gittner,
Larissa Fassler, Juul Hondius and Alex Schweder. In addition to that it was the starting point
of a research on the perception of spatial production amongst friends and colleagues
in the field of design, architecture and arts.

Something Fantastic designed a structure from whool threads
that edged and portioned the Kunsthalle's Seitenlichtsaal and gave each piece
its own space to occupy, like pages of a book do. The research project consqequent
upon the exhibition is still in progress and its outcome will be presented
in an upcoming publication and another show in Berlin.

 

 

SOMETHING FANTASTIC
A Manifesto by Three Young Architects on Worlds, People, Cities, And Houses

Something Fantastic is about architecture. It is about the future.
It is about the environment, energy and politics. It is about beautiful things.
It is about being naïve enough to ask the right questions. Three young architects,
Elena Schuetz, Julian Schubert, and Leonard Streich, lay out a manifesto for
increased consciousness in thought and action. Plans and proposals for architecture
ranging from the built to the utopian engage this spatial inquiry into the
possibilities in the real world.

Something Fantastic is about interconnection and dialog. In Interviews Werner Sobek,
Gerhard Matzig, Markus Miessen, and many more contribute their thoughts as they
speak about subjects as diverse as the future of architecture, evolution, poetry and
communication. Thinkers as diverse as Thomas Hobbes, Alain de Botton,
Walter Benjamin and Mies van der Rohe are excerpted, letting the reader choose from
a smorgasbord of word and thought. These quotations are then annotated to reference,
connect, and illuminate the themes and issues discussed throughout the book.

Ultimately, Something Fantastic is about hope for the future, inspiration, and the courage
to call for the new, and in so doing the book is a treasure trove for architecture students,
professionals and anyone passionate about the making of our physical world.

Something Fantastic
A Manifesto by Three Young Architects on Worlds, People, Cities, And Houses
Ruby Press, 2010
English, 218 pages, 18 x 29,7 cm, paperback
ISBN 978-3-9813436-1-8

Buy the book online:
Buchhandlung Walther König (Germany)
Motto Distribution (Switzerland)
AA Book Store (UK)
NAi Booksellers (Netherlands)
Copyright Books (Belgium)
Stout Books (USA)

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA
An Index of Re-Inventing Construction

 

 

Something Fantastic has compiled an encyclopedia containing an eclectic array of entries
for all those who want to re-invent construction. The topics range from vernacular architecture
and physical principles to inspiring examples and the most high tech materials.
The Index is part of the book Re-Inventing Construction containing work by among others 51N4E,
Biarke Ingels and Lacaton Vassal. The book was published by Ruby Press.

Re-inventing Construction
Ilka & Andreas Ruby (Eds.). With an Illustrated Index by Something Fantastic, 2010
English, 440 pages, 17,5 x 23,5 cm, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-9813436-2-5

Buy the book online:
Ruby Press

Go to the wiki-version of the index:
whatwow.org

THE CRYSTAL LAMPS
Easy, simple, inexpensive and white

Something Fantastic has created a set of crystalline shaped lamps from styrofoam that
are on display at The Apartement in Bülowstrasse 90.

A simple DIY-instruction allowing everybody to make his or her own lamp is going
to be available soon.

Material: 6 styrofoam boards (50cm x 100cm x 1cm), metal wire, glue

 

HOUSE LANGEN
Annex to a 100sqm, 1950s house

Something Fantastic is commissioned to design and build an annex to a semidetached
single family house in Langen near Frankfurt.

THE DUMPLING EXPRESS
A cooking machine made for the city

The image pictures the Dumpling Express, a solar fueled, mobile dumpling cooker
envisioned by Something Fantastic as a propagandistic ruse within the cityscape
creating desire for a modern way of cooking and a more lively street scene.
In many ways it is a 1:1 Manifestation of how Something Fantastic thinks future architecture should be.
It is high-tech and low-tech at the same time. It uses the existing, it creates a space to interact,
it is flexible. It enables you to cook food without using fossile fuels, coal or even electricity.
It is cheap, simple, mobile and white.


Material: Three-wheeled bicycle with plywood box and solar cooker, 173cm x69cm x 178cm.
Place: Mobile, best used in busy city areas or city parks.