the two surfaces are made of black transpierced perspex

the sticks are half brazen and half iron

the conjunctions consist of screws, screw nuts and plastic hose

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2008 Workshops' schedule

RE-HOTEL

The Renovation of the Olympic Palace intends to create Greece’s first green hotel. In order to do so Campanas have created a low impact project which develops the concept of incorporating reclaimed materials into its design.
The main challeng
e behind this project is to incorporate the ideas of agglomeration and fragmentation and maintain it as a guiding line for this project. Each room must have this characteristic that is so peculiar to Fernando and Humberto’s work.

FIRST WORKSHOP

Date:

March (on the week of 2nd to 8th)

Objective:




Re-create the existing chairs for the restaurant (Scandinavian ones from the old restaurant):
  • part of the chairs will remain as they are (with its paint removed and possibility re-painted)
  • the other part will receive prosthesis (hybrid additions)
Tasks:
  1. Remove the old paint and varnish from its surfaces, making them smoother, and allowing it to be re-painted.
  2. Apply the new varnish to its surfaces.
  3. Each participant will restore a small number of chairs. Some will only be restored (cleaned and reupholstered) maintaining its original characteristics, only with a new layer of varnish, and the others will be transformed receiving hybrid applications.
  4. These applications can be from different parts of other objects, but they must be applied resembling a “band-aid” or a parasite, alluding to the characteristic present in Campanas’ works, such as the TransPlastic collection.
(Step one should be completed upon Campanas arrival on March 2nd. All the material needed must be at hands. F+H should only help the group develop the hybrid transformations and the creation of the parasite chairs.)

Timing:

From March to May: Complete the renovation and hybridizing of the chairs following Campanas’ instructio
ns.

SECOND WORKSHOP (need accurate measures that should be supplied by architecture team)


Date:

End of May (to be defined: either on the week
of the 18th or on the week of the 25th)

Objective:

Create mirror or leather
mosaic for room. Wardrobe and one key wall from each bedroom will be a mirror or leather mosaic wall: 78 different walls and wardrobe sliding doors should be designed and constructed by the group (with the accurate measures supplied by the architecture team).

Tasks:
  1. Select and create mirror or leather pieces containing different sizes (the pieces will need to have a nice soft finish, so you will probably need professional help with this).
  2. The walls should be designed parting from big pieces in different shapes and sizes (the guests should be able to see their whole body when they are looking at the largest piece of mirror. It needs to be functional.) and then adding the smaller pieces to soften the composition.
  3. Campanas have created a panel for a discotheque in São Paulo, which is a composition of mirror pieces, inspired on their Brasília table and should be a nice example for you to follow. They have also designed a leather chair for Edra, earlier this year (Leather Works Chair). The walls must carry this chaotic and harmonic feeling present in Campanas’ works.
MIRROR:



LEATHER:  



Timing:


Pre-May: Prepare t
he materials needed (mirror or leather pieces must be at hands when Fernando and Humberto arrive for the workshop)
Workshop: produce, with C
ampanas’ help, prototype walls
From May until the co
mpletion of task: produce key walls and sliding doors

THIRD WORKSHOP

Date:

July (the date is still going to be defined)

Objective:

Create hybrid furniture parting from the old hotel’s furniture.

Tasks:
  1. Select, from the old hotel’s furniture, pieces that you like and that you find interesting somehow.
  2. From the old furniture participants should create new hybrid pieces, mixing the existing chairs, tables, sofas and others. These new pieces to be created will be pre-established by our studio, according to the interior design needs.
Timing:

Pre-July: select old furniture
July – September: develop and finish piece of furniture

FORTH WORKSHOP


Date:

September (the date is still going to be defined)

Objective:


Create main feature of the Restaura
nt and Lobby: Favela Walls.



Tasks:
  1. Construction team: Separate the pieces of wood that can be reutilized
  2. Operational team will coordinate: cleaning, hygienization and fumigation.
  3. Cut the wood in pieces with different sizes (You will need professional help for this, because the wood needs to be cut and smoothly finished). Board sizes: maximum length possible x 5 cm,15 cm ,20 cm and 30 cm width.
  4. The walls will be designed, with Campanas help, based on their Favela Chair (2003).
Observation: professional carpenter help, power tools, such as: electric saw and wood stapler is required.

Timing:

September workshop: every wood board has to be ready and at hand
September to completion of task: produce all the Favela panels

FIFTH WORKSHO
P

Date:

November (the date is still going to be defined)

Objective:

Installations:
  • Lamp agglomeration walls (Two for the restaurant area and one in each room floor: a total of 8 pieces)
  • Plastic containers garden table
  • Furniture covered with wood board using the Favela style.
Tasks:

LAMP AGGLOMERATIONS:
  1. Separate and clean the Lamps left from the old hotel.
  2. Make sure all cables and lamps are working perfectly. (professional help required)
  3. With Fernando and Humberto’s instructions and Constantinos supervision, you should design the walls, agglomerating the lamps and creating a harmonic composition. Professional help is required for the proper electric installation of these lamps. Please make sure all the materials and the professional help is there when the brothers arrive.
PLASTIC CONTAINERS GARDEN TABLE:
  1. Collect plastic containers, such as water gallons, and make flower vases using them as bases.
  2. Arrange a table to be used as base for this installation.
  3. Propose ideas of how these gallons should be attached to the table.
FURNITURE COVERED IN FAVELA STYLE:
  1. Select, from the old hotel’s furniture, tables and small cabinets.
  2. Arrange wood pieces (maybe the leftovers of the Favela walls, as the pieces needed are much smaller).

Observation: The participants will be divided into 3 groups.

Timing:


Pre-November: Collect and prepare the material
November: Workshop November until projects’ completion: Produce all pieces Observation: For this to happen all the material should be at hands, the professional help should be there to assist you and the wood should be already prepared.


Campanas Presentation

Campana Brothers

Eco- Consciousness:

"Due to our increasing concern with global warming, and environmental issues we do our best to preserve the planet we live in. It is not possible to use only recycled materials in every piece, but we try to keep conscious about the ones we choose”

Favela Chair:

Designed in 1991, it started being produced by Edra only in 2003. Being a hand made chair results on each chair is
different from the other.

By accumulating pieces o
f wood, the chair recreates the spontaneous formations of the shantytowns. Off cuts of certified wood reclaimed from Habitart’s carpentry are assembled and glued together by hand.

In 2006 Edra launched, at the Salone del Mobile, new version proper for the outdoor use made of teak wood.

TransNeomatic Container Bowl:



TransNeomatic is a container bowl made of used (rescued from life-in-a-landfill) scooter tire and natural wicker. Before weaving begins the tire goes through a steam cleaning process removing all dir
t and particles coated with a water-based non-toxic eco-friendly solution to seal and protect the tire from everyday usage.

Artecnica chose to produce TransNeomatic in Vietnam due to the country’s enormous amount of disposed tires from the populace’s ubiquitous scooters and the highly evolved culture of handcraft skills. Monsoon cycles, crop seasons, tire size: all played into the design production process, as did the local attitudes towards handcraft. Artecnica stressed the value of this work, challenging the skilled artisans from a countryside village in Vietnam to apply and refine their traditional handcraft using the new exacting standard this design requires.

Green Buildings do not need to sacrifice modernity nor luxury to be sustainable:

Green buildings are similar to conventional buildings in many aspects, but they operate and are maintained in a sustainable way.



Within the five pillars of performance: Outdoor, Indoor, Water, Energy and Materials, the adoption of an eco-friendly approach in a number of different projects represented considerable savings, increase in real state value, as well as other motiv
ational effects on the users.

Outdoor:
Renovation and
retrofitting of pre-existing buildings and its surroundings, as well as solutions to lower the carbon emission rates



Indoor:
Air quality control
of indoor environments, ventilation, thermal control and biodegradable cleaning products



Water:
Reduce t
he need for drinkable water supply as well as the impact in the local watershed



Energy:
Increase energy efficiency, the use of alternative sources of energy and lower carbon emmisions



Materials:
Reduce the amount of new material in the production process. Employ materials with less impa
ct in the environment and manage more efficiently the production of waste



Eco-paradigm: Green is elevated to Luxury

Eco-consumerism is a growing trend among individuals of higher economic classes. Associate
d with notions of well being, rejuvenation, luxury and hedonism, it's become an aspirational product that appeals to a market segment that's design savvy, with an keen eye for aesthetics.

In face of this fact, the current industrial design and architecture production destined to fill this consumption gap have been assuming a more refined look, luxurious without exaggeration.



Products endowed with a holistic approach to concept and execution that becomes evident in the choices for materials, light effects, shapes, colors and usability and goes far beyond the traditional perception of rusticity and earthen tones that surrounds the subject.

Prologue: Ou
r objective



Greece is perceived a country of history and tradition by the foreigners. A Country with a great influence in many civilisations. That’s the archetype hold by the Greek, and it’s their most important value. Our main objective is how can we translate all that memory in a contemporary way, so both Greeks and foreigners would feel the legacy of this history.

Knowing the area; Transfering the history; What we have to tell.

The Hotel

The Olympic Palace Hotel (16, Filellinon Street) has a privileged location in Athens Center, situated just across from Syntagma Square, the Greek Parliament and the National Gardens, within a walking distance from the Acropolis, the lovely city of Plaka, and the city`s commercial, retail, business and cultural center.

It is also located near many of Athens' oldest and most famous neighborhoods and tourist attractions. The neighborhoods of Plaka, Monastiraki, Psirri and Kolonaki are all within walking distance, and most of the famous sites of ancient Athens are nearby, including the Acropolis, the Theater of Dionysus, the Areopagus, the Ancient Agora of Athens with Hadrian's Library, the Tower of the Winds in the Roman Agora, the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, the Arch of Hadrian, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Pnyx, the Philopappos Monument on the Hill of the Nymphs, the Kerameikos Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Lycabettus Hill. Historic churches also dot the area, some dating from the Middle Ages.

The concept: Temporal Collages



The memory is fragmented. Every memory we have is discontinuous. We hold images from some important moment around the age of five, then another around the age of eight. Long periods in our lives are not remembered at all.

We can only remember moments that hold strong enough emotions. Memory imprints are usually associated with powerful emotional content.

Memories are usually connected to objects and places. Our hotel is a place meant to value these memories.



We have characterized our Hotel as more than a simple space. We’ve strategically conceived it as an emotional place, not only rescuing a history that was fragmented by time but also stimulates the creation of new histories.

The Memory Hotel:

Brazil is the result of many cultures, traditions and histories overlayed. This project starts with Greece’s history, through their eyes and readings of memories...



Fernando and Humberto’s work incorporates the idea of transformation and reinvention: revealing the grandeur in the ordinary. Common or everyday materials carry not only the creativity in design, but also signs of fragmentation, a reflex of the great influence memories hold in their work.

Swirled memories



Entangled memories



Fragmented
memories...



It is a celebration of the past and an anticipation of the future through the different readings and manifestations of the memory.

The Re-Hotel: A pla
ce for future memories

Re-view n
Another look a
t or consideration of something



Re-build vt
To construct a building or other structure again because it has been damaged or destroyed

To work to rest
ore something that has been weakened, damaged, or ruined
To make major alter
ations or improvements to something



Re-cover v
vt to get back something previously lost
vi to return to a previo
us state of health, prosperity, or equanimity



Re-store vt
To return something to its proper owner or place
To bring something back to an earlier and better condition



Re-adapt v
vti to change, or change something, to suit different conditions or different purpose
vti to make or become used to a new environment or different conditions



Re-use vt
To use something again, often for a different purpose
and ussually as an alternative to throwing it out



Re-form v
vt to change and improve something by correcting
faults removing inconsistencies and abuses, and
imposing modern methods or values



Re-act vi
To respond to something by showing the feelings or thoughts it arouses
To respond to something by taking action

Campanas Workshop in December 11th

Dear All,
First of all I would like to introduce myself: my name is Luiza and I am going to be responsible for the organization of the following workshops. If you have any doubts or need any information please do not hesitate to contact me at luiza@campanas.com.br. I would also like to congratulate you for the Flicker. It looks great!
For this next workshop, on December 11th, Fernando and Humberto are expecting you to bring samples, producer contacts and efficient public solutions.
I have summarized the notes Leo has done during the last workshop to help you keep in mind what the Campanas are expecting from each one of you.
Kind regards from São Paulo,
Luiza

Xristina Tsiragelou

Sun Umbrellas – dig further you idea and present producrs contacts.

Nikos Tsimas

Kourelou – The brothers think it would be interesting to make a patchwork using different colours and patterns. Verify if using it as bedclothes or wall covering is possible and make propositions. Present producer contacts.

Coffee cup – Suggestion: Print iconic Greek images on the glass and recipe on the back. Present you proposition and the producer’s contacts.

Giannis Papagiannakis

Plastic baskets – Suggestion: subvert their use, transforming them into shelves (to collect towels) and seats and adding to the new structure wicker, making the composition more interesting. Present producers contacts and manufactures (to make the wavering) contacts.

Printed water glass with ex-royal family images – Suggestion: use anonymous people instead of members of the royal family. Play with this, maybe using Greek anti-heroes. Present producers contacts.

Konstantia Manthou

Dowry – Suggestion: use it to make seats, towels and table clothes. Present producers contacts.

Basketry – Suggestion: use the patterns to make sun umbrellas. Mix the fishermen with the threes. Present producers contacts.

Kalimera mirror – Suggestion: use different texts; more provocative and positive ones. Present producers contacts.

Nefeli Georgakopoulous

Puppet Theatre – Suggestion: develop a Jewry collection. Present ideas and producers contacts.

Wood board and shelf – Suggestion: develop it to use as a candlestick for the top floor. Present ideas and producers contacts.

Evi Sougara

Small Tailoring industries – Suggestion: you must dig deeper. Relate it to other traditional objects. Present new ideas and producers contacts.

Eleni Spiridaki

Marble blocks print – Suggestion: make this in ceramics. Present producers contacts.

Eleni Theodorou

Stone sanctuary – Suggestion: transform these sanctuaries into doghouses for the rooms. Present ideas and producers contacts.

Elsa Kiourtsoglou

Lottery advertising – Suggestion: make a magazine rack for the store. Present ideas and producers contacts.

Alexandra Chronaki

Leather hanger – Suggestion: design leather hangers for the rooms, bars, for the kitchen. Present ideas and producers contacts.

Yannis Arvanitis

Tama – Suggestion: make “do not disturb”, “thank you”, and “room service” plaques. Create a panel made of these tama. Use the shape to make cookies. Present producers contacts.