Parametric Design furniture
August 20, 2023
Michaela Crie Stone lives and works in Rockport, Maine, where she creates pieces that push the parameters of function by blurring the lines between art, craft, and design.
Designer Antony Gibbon has visualised a conceptual house called Twine, which sits under a wave-like piece of concrete within a landscape of rolling hills. Gibbon conceived Twine as a twisting concrete structure, which reflects the hills surrounding as a “series of organic forms”. It takes its name directly from the word Twine, which means to twist strands of material together, or to wind round something.
Gibbon created the rippling twists and curvature of the form to be visually interesting. The movement in the shape is measured purely in its form and function, aesthetically as well as practically.
The house’s living spaces are located within a series of arches beneath the upturned concrete reveals, which are enclosed by glass walls so that they have views out to the hillside landscape. Each twist/bend creates the structural support to the ground allowing the internal spaces for the glass walls and interior.
The house is divided in two with the lounge and kitchen areas and bedrooms located in arches on either side of a central covered area. This terrace has a sunken amphitheatre-like circular seating area, which faces into a fire pit. Triangular openings that perforate the concrete in a rip-like manner form the entrances to both parts of the longitudinal house.
On the roof, Gibbon conceived a terrace with a spa and hot tub, accessed via a staircase from one wing of the house which leads to the central terrace.
