Pipe Light is an installation on an abandoned house in São Paulo, Brazil by French-Brazilian architects Triptyque.

The project, part of a design show held at the property earlier this year, comprises metal tubing and lamps wrapped around the inside and outside of the building.

The installation was commissioned Houssein Jarouche, owner of the adjacent furniture and homeware store Micasa.

More Dezeen stories about Triptyque:

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Bela Cintra 1235
Loducca Building

The following is from Triptyque:

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Pipe Light - Triptyque

“I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.” – Marcel Duchamp

The Pipe Light was created from the design of a product that was morphologically similar to a vegetable which invades and takes the parts of a house, as a creeping plant; thus role of a bridge between art and design.

But unlike its inspirational object – that make the process of photosynthesis -, the pipe light "feeds" of darkness for enlighten.

Not only that, the luminary also exposes the architectonic drawing which is occult between walls.

By means of the use of conduits and other previously existing industrial components, not modified, it proposes a discussion between functionality, aesthetics and artistic value.

This installation of Pipe Light was performed by the invitation of Houssein Jarouche - shop owner of Micasa with project signed by Triptyque – to acquire a house abandoned alongside his shop.

After receiving the project intervention of the studio 20.87, the house became the stage of an exhibition entitled "do outro lado do muro” (the other side of the wall), which had 19 expressive names in the field of art and design, national and international, between August 09 and September 06, 2008.

The exhibition raised a questioning about the actual problem of the creative process and stimulated a dialog between art and design, proposing a decrease of the boundaries between one and another.

The design of luminaries appeared for the first time in the project of the night club Museum and from then began to take life itself and has been processed into product to be edited in Micasa, with special projects by Wall Lamps.

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French-Brazilian architects Triptyque have sent through images of Bela Cintra 1235, a private apartment in São Paulo.

Completed in 2006, the apartment features a monumental curving bookcase that wraps around the building's circulation.

The apartment was designed for Houssein Jarouche, owner of the design boutique Micasa in São Paulo. Triptyque also designed the Micasa showroom.

See our earlier story about the Loducca building in São Paulo by Triptyqye.

Here's info from Triptyque:

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BELA CINTRA_1235

PROGRAM APARTMENT
LOCATION BRAZIL / SÃO PAULO (JARDINS)
AREA 300 m²
DATE SEPTEMBER_2006

Dominique Gonzales Foester defined the tropical identity as “something organic, intense, sensorial, vegetal, pulsating, immature, out of control”.

These concepts guided the project for this apartment. This project embodies the idea of global design – it’s a completely artistic project. A contemporaneous and singular architectural plan is established from the layout to the faucets.

The 300 square feet apartment was planned as a great gallery with aligned rooms without an established function. The goal was to stimulate unexpected occupations and give a certain gratuité to the spaces. The main concept was to work the space as whole unit, divided in smaller rooms.

Inside, strong elements are confronted, resulting in a poetic conversation. The use of wooden floors – per example – is very expressive: the treated demolition wood and its irregular pieces juxtaposes with the white lacquered bookcase. The artificial makes visual contrast with the rough. In the same way, the kitchen’s concrete speaks to the stainless steel from the drawers and doors.

Therefore, the apartment offers a great variety of points of view, sequences, accidents and movements. The result is extraordinary and surprising – the visual relation created with the loose volumes and the organic omnipresence of the Treme-Treme leads to a unique architectural experience.

“The first step was to clear the space and observe the potentials. The second step was to establish a new hierarchy that privileges the continuity of spaces. The third, to search and create a language of our own”, say the Triptyques.

The greatest challenge to the architects was to make sure that this continuity was obtained without interfering in the richness of internal spaces. The apartment structure was opened to its maximum in order to clear the plan, where a dialog between the bookcase, the kitchen and the galleries is set.

A monumental structure (the bookcase) embraces the technical core of the building (elevators and stairs). It presents itself in every room and defines the whole project: through the bookcase is made the entrance to the apartment, like walking into a cave, through the dark towards the light.

The kitchen is a great concrete stone – from where fire arises – that stands in the center of the project. It is the element of encountering and articulation and is placed in the central position, speaking directly to the great structure (the bookcase).

The gallery is marked by integrated essential elements, such as closets, bathtub, bed, kitchen, etc. – all of them treated in a minimalist way – rough concrete, demolition wooden floors, stainless steel, white walls, etc. – giving the furniture and art pieces space to be moved around.

The furniture – pieces of international design collections – was chosen with the client’s participation. The choice was leaded by the configuration of spaces, considering as priority the rooms’ versatility and the possibility of eventual layout changes.

White is the main color used. In the gallery, the white is accompanied by the natural colors of the other materials – concrete, wood and stainless steel – and in the bedroom it is side by side with dark-grey elements, giving it a strong and intimate feel.

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