The Prohibition Kit comprises a fully-functioning cooking pot, fondue stove, fruit bowl and watering can that can be combined to brew alcohol at home.

"Producing schnapps, liquor or alcohol is very restricted by the law in most countries," says Morackini. "The separated elements are legal but put together the objects become illegal. I wanted to explore the limit of legislation."

The set is primarily made of copper. "This material has always been used for the construction of stills since ancient times," explains the designer.

"With the evolution of time and technologies, new materials have been introduced such as stainless steel, but old Europe will by no means exchange their copper stills."

His design won first prize in the professional category of the Copper and the Home 2012 contest organised by the Italian Copper Institute.

Francesco Morackini studied industrial design and management then worked in Brazil, the United States and France before establishing his studio in Vienna.

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Named Daeyang Gallery and House, the copper-clad building has two pavilions that rise up above the water to provide an entrance and an event space for the private gallery, while a third is the home of the owner.

The architects claim that the building's proportions follow the patterns of a musical score by Hungarian-Canadian composer Istvan Anhalt, which they say can be best observed in the arrangement of 55 skylights on the roofs of the three blocks.

More skylights are scattered across the base of the pool, so daylight must pass through the water before entering the gallery.

Above: photograph is by Inho Lee

See all our recent stories about projects in South Korea here and see more architecture by Steven Holl here.

Above: photograph is by Inho Lee

Photography is by Iwan Baan, apart from where otherwise stated.

Here's some more information from Steven Holl Architects:

Daeyang Gallery and House Seoul, Korea
2008 - 2012

The private gallery and house is sited in the hills of the Kangbuk section of Seoul, Korea.

The project was designed as an experiment parallel to a research studio on “the architectonics of music.”

The basic geometry of the building is inspired by a 1967 sketch for a music score by the composer Istvan Anhalt, “Symphony of Modules,” which was discovered in a book by John Cage titled “Notations.”

Above: photograph is by Inho Lee

Three pavilions; one for entry, one residence, and one event space, appear to push upward from a continuous gallery level below. A sheet of water establishes the plane of reference from above and below.

Above: photograph is by Inho Lee

The idea of space as silent until activated by light is realized in the cutting of 55 skylight strips in the roofs of the three pavilions.

Above: photograph is by Inho Lee

In each of the pavilions, 5 strips of clear glass allow the sunlight to turn and bend around the inner spaces, animating them according to the time of day and season. Proportions are organized around the series 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55.

Views from within the pavilions are framed by the reflecting pool, which is bracketed by gardens that run perpendicular to the skylight strips.

In the base of the reflecting pool, strips of glass lenses bring dappled light to the white plaster walls and white granite floor of the gallery below.

A visitor arrives through a bamboo formed garden wall at the entry court, after opening the front door and ascending a low stair.

He or she can turn to see the central pond at eye level and take in the whole of the three pavilions, floating on their own reflections.

The interiors of the pavilions are red and charcoal stained wood with the skylights cutting through the wood ceiling. Exteriors are a rain screen of custom patinated copper which ages naturally within the landscape.

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Dezeen archive: this week we've featured both floating islands made of crumpled copper (bottom right) and a copper-clad house extension (bottom left) so we thought we'd round up all our stories about projects that were made using the metal. See all the stories »

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Singapore and Barcelona designers Outofstock presented floating islands made of crumpled copper and moss during the International Furniture Fair Singapore this month.

Inspired by the fictional floating island of Laputa featured in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the installation for their own showcase called The Workshop Gallery hung inside a Tyvek tent on a city-centre street.

The moss was harvested from unnoticed nooks and crannies in the city like tree trunks and drains."The intention was to let visitors view the moss up close, appreciating the nature that thrives unseen around us," says Gabriel Tan from Outofstock.

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Photographs are by Ng Xin Nie.

Here are some more details from Outofstock:

A meditative space, an introspective journey. Imaginary landscapes we create to escape the banality of city life.

The installation is inspired by Laputa, from Gulliver's travels, a fictional flying island created by a small civilization of educated mathematicians, astronomers and musicians. Set in the heart of the city, Laputa is a juxtaposition of its context - the urban city. We live in a society full of products and information, flawed value systems, and endless material pursuits, noise and visual clutter. Perhaps, it is only in such a fictional landscape that we can finally make sense of our increasingly surreal realities.

Every piece of the hanging installation was unique in its formation and the way it was crinkled, the more facets and 'imperfections' appeared, the more they bore the uncanny resemblance to miniature hills and valleys. The unfinished copper was allowed to weather with the natural elements and produce a changing patina, in this way both copper and moss were continually growing alongside each other.

The Workshop Gallery is founded by Outofstock as a space dedicated to their passion for handcrafted objects.

Bruno Munari once said, ”If what we use every day is made with art, and not thrown together by chance or caprice, then we shall have nothing to hide.” The Workshop Gallery too seeks to bring us objects that rekindle our long-lost contact with the art of making in our daily lives.

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This design concept was devised in response to a local guideline stating that new buildings in the area should all have traditional pitched roofs.

Named the Balmain Archive, the building branches out from the rear of the existing house to provide a storage archive, work studio, barbeque area and laundry room.

Glazed walls across the front of the studio slide back to open the room out to a raised deck facing the garden.

Other residential extensions we've featured include a barrel-vaulted conservatory in London - see them all here.

Photography is by John Gollings.

The text below is from Innovarchi:

Project Description

In the context of the heritage area in and around Balmain this extension to a small cottage demanded careful consideration of the philosophy behind the new intervention.

Analysis of traditional built forms, usage patterns and development codes led to a strategy of providing a contemporary interpretation of the ever-decreasing volumes often evident in ad hoc additions of kitchens, laundries and outside toilets that were often made to these original structures.

Moving away from traditional usage patterns, the public penetration of the private realm has progressed from the compartmentalised formal front rooms to the more relaxed and inclusive realm at the back of the property.

The area closest to the entry now becomes the bedroom precinct and the back is a fragmented indoor/outdoor public space bounded by the allotment fencing. Access is via a central corridor that extends through the house right back to the rear gate.

With local design guidelines requiring pitched roof forms the new architecture grew out of the recognizable triangular shapes traditionally associated with hipped roofs.

The building also acts as a protective screen creating a privacy hood blocking the views into the garden from the neighbouring house. As the scale and dimension of the addition reduces towards the back gate the external landscape is amplified and spliced into the informal semi-internal spaces.

The folding forms create a canopy that provides shading in summer and allows the northern sun to penetrate into the space for passive heating in winter. The addition breathes new life into old under-used home with 95% of the existing building fabric retained.

The roof design increases the rainwater harvesting capacity and the skylights foster a reliance on natural daylighting. The spaces are naturally ventilated and the roof has high performance insulation to minimise heat gain. The landscape concept includes a deck area and large native garden eliminating the need for lawn.

Architect: Innovarchi
Engineer: TTW, Builder Grater Constructions
Cladding: Craft Metals

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