French designer Amaury Poudray has designed a glass, zeppelin-shaped aquarium supported by a steel frame.
More fish tank stories on Dezeen:
Floating Garden by Benjamin Graindorge
Local River by Mathieu Lehanneur
Fish Bowls by Roger Arquer
Here are some words from Audray:
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I am exploring structures’ construction and their limits through experiences in furniture design. I add, build with simple elements. These materials, shapes and alive elements combinations makes me think about writing which combine letters to create meaning. Each elements is a part of everything as well as autonomus.
My goal was to elevate this glass shape and create a link between two materials. Glass is highlighted and in danger by the minimal steel legs. Several tries were necessary to find the solution of a glass tube to slide steel legs in. This object is a construction, an assembling, a simple accumulation of elements, alive or not. The construction principle is visible in the product conception as well as in its utilisation.
“Air 1″ was built with the glass craftsman Pierre Pignat, Genas (69) France.
Amaury Poudray is part of the brand new design studio “Matiere A” composed also with Remi Bouhaniche, Marie Declerck.
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Posted by Brad Turner
July 1st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
I would hate to be that fish…
July 1st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Question: Why young french designers design glass aquariums ?
(5,5 designers, Lehanneur ENSCI, Graindorge ENSCI, Guisset ENSCI…. Poudray St Etienne….)
July 1st, 2009 at 4:14 pm
that fish is a ”fighting fish”. it leaves alone and in very little spaces. it seems totally fine for the fish. it also gives an other dimention to the project. I dont know why several aquariums are created. For this one it seems clear that it is a construction game with materials , life , water … it is more a matter of construction balanced between life and shapes than an ecological trend like lehanneur or graindorges …
July 1st, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Please everyone, stop doing cages and aquariums…. really
July 1st, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Prof Z, you forgot R pure
http://www.outnext.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/21/speedfishrpure.jpg
July 1st, 2009 at 4:40 pm
the poor fish, there is no air, no filter, an aquarium should offer primary living cuircumstances, this design is not yet finished. If he could keep it slender and elegant and provide all the services fish need to survive… cool design
July 1st, 2009 at 5:08 pm
The Siamese fighter will be fine in such a small enclosure with no filtration; it doesn’t like movement in the water.. the size is really decent – there are other Siamese Fighter enclosures MUCH smaller than this.. Adding plants and gravel will make them more comfortable though and this is easily done by the keeper.. Very regular water changes is of course needed with such a small and unfiltrated aquaria..
I’d like to have one of these! Very nice..!
July 1st, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I love this piece! I mean, I really liked it. Yet I believe it wont be very confortable for the fish, but at least it is better than those silly globes, that freak fishes out!
Congrats Poudray!
July 1st, 2009 at 5:33 pm
How many people outhere keep fishes nowadays?
July 1st, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Allô Marcus, a new french aaquarium-phone-booth in last Lyon festival…
http://www.woohome.com/life-story/aquarium-phone-booth/2355
July 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I love it! Who cares about the fish…
This is a very nice design!
Congrats Amaury!
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 am
I like it. Good and innovative. Fit for fighters and their likes as they can breathe direct from the air. Bravo!!!
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:58 am
killing app for fish….. but museal design !!!design for anthology not design solution
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:43 am
“I love it! Who cares about the fish…”
This made me laugh…. souldless but largely, which tempts me submitting this message.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 am
If I were to be that lone fish, I will surely go mad in no time coz the curved glass is giving me a totally warped & distorted view of whatever that’s outside of this tiny enclosure.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 am
the fish is greater than most human kinds.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:09 am
design for designers. no market. no sales. nonsense. no beauty. no discus
just no
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 am
poor fish
cool tough
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:52 am
@Xit
french designers has not the monopole in the design of a fish aquarium.
You must see also young brazilian designer Rafael Morgan cage for fish too… real? surreal?virtual? possible ? impossible? …. or dead end?
@mame
i have a project for the future of animality…following french designers 5,5 designers, Lehanneur ENSCI, Graindorge ENSCI, Guisset ENSCI…. Poudray St Etienne…and R pure. I will send it to deZZZeen in september….
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:04 am
in germany -for example- ordinary fish bowls of any kind are forbidden…. by law!
guess what they would say about this.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
… and cage for chicken ?
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
let the fish decide!
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:52 am
sweet idea. it’ll be cooler if the aquarium was suspended with a wire of sort from the ceiling.
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I would totally walk into that. Then the fish really wouldn’t be happy.