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Blue Pie
Toronto, Canada
Blue Pie is a transformation of a typical Torontonian condo into the celebration of a man’s living style and artistic curiosities. The client, a 40-year-old family doctor with a love for the colors white and blue, had purchased a photograph of an iceberg, taken by rzlbd during his arctic explorations. When they discovered their mutual interest in simplicity, purity, and humble environments, the doctor hired rzlbd to alter his living space into a manifesto of these interests. With a limited budget and a tight schedule, rzlbd began the challenge inspired by the two recently purchased artworks, one being the photograph of the iceberg and the other a painting entitled “Back Alley Abstract” by Sandra Duba-Shubs; both are in blue and white. The artworks are an elaboration of the client’s idea of a calm living area, which rzlbd focused on achieving. The budget included the cost for the interior architectural alterations as well as the cost of home decor, cutlery, bed and bath accessories, and personal items. The project had to be complete within four weeks.
Blue Pie is the public domain of the client’s condo, a 450-square-foot area, a quarter of a circle in plan that resembles the slice of a cake. The transformation began with removing the hardwood floors to expose the rough concrete slab underneath. The floor was then painted with blue oil-based floor paint to create a platform that would complement the furniture, creating a serene image of icebergs floating on the surface of a deep blue sea. Two solid walls frame the living areas, while the large curved curtain wall allows for natural light from the southwest to fill the space. As a cost saving strategy the existing kitchen cabinets and appliances on the north wall were kept, while the kitchen island was removed to make space for a built-in dining table that cantilevers from the column just hovering above the blue floor. The east wall is a 25-inch-wide millwork containing a workstation, lower bench and wine rack. A blue hanging seat sits on the radius of the circle and is visually merged with the light that floats the space from the curved curtain walls. All lighting fixtures have been removed from the ceiling and only five spotlights are installed on a linear rail, highlighting each of these arrangements.
A space is normally accessorized after the architecture is complete. But in this case the architecture itself is the accessory for the space. The built-in furniture that hovers above the floor and the millwork’s reveal that attempts to hide the edge of contact with the blue concrete are architectural translations of icebergs, which portray serenity. The evolution of the Blue Pie was an inspirational experiment that truly fulfilled the individual needs of the client and trusted its fate in the art of arctic nature.
Design: Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]
Project team: Ehsan Zareian, Bahar Joshanpoosh, Lailee Soleimani
Logistic: Nikta Mazloom
Construction: Royal Falcon Inc.
Photography: borXu Design
Blue Pie is the public domain of the client’s condo, a 450-square-foot area, a quarter of a circle in plan that resembles the slice of a cake. The transformation began with removing the hardwood floors to expose the rough concrete slab underneath. The floor was then painted with blue oil-based floor paint to create a platform that would complement the furniture, creating a serene image of icebergs floating on the surface of a deep blue sea. Two solid walls frame the living areas, while the large curved curtain wall allows for natural light from the southwest to fill the space. As a cost saving strategy the existing kitchen cabinets and appliances on the north wall were kept, while the kitchen island was removed to make space for a built-in dining table that cantilevers from the column just hovering above the blue floor. The east wall is a 25-inch-wide millwork containing a workstation, lower bench and wine rack. A blue hanging seat sits on the radius of the circle and is visually merged with the light that floats the space from the curved curtain walls. All lighting fixtures have been removed from the ceiling and only five spotlights are installed on a linear rail, highlighting each of these arrangements.
A space is normally accessorized after the architecture is complete. But in this case the architecture itself is the accessory for the space. The built-in furniture that hovers above the floor and the millwork’s reveal that attempts to hide the edge of contact with the blue concrete are architectural translations of icebergs, which portray serenity. The evolution of the Blue Pie was an inspirational experiment that truly fulfilled the individual needs of the client and trusted its fate in the art of arctic nature.
Design: Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]
Project team: Ehsan Zareian, Bahar Joshanpoosh, Lailee Soleimani
Logistic: Nikta Mazloom
Construction: Royal Falcon Inc.
Photography: borXu Design
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