French architects Agence Search have completed a water-sports centre beside the Seine with a roof of undulating waves.
A screen of wave-shaped louvers shades the building’s south elevation, creating dappled shadows on the lobby walls behind. Water is the unifying element of the entire project. Above the swimming pools the underside of the roof follows the curvature of the building’s structure.
The aquatic element, which appears at times as a mirror, at times in movement, is in dialogue with light, further enriching the users’ spatial experience.
the design of the mashrabiya,with its undulating lines, is a metaphor of the aquatic element.
It thus expresses the essence of the activity within.The curved forms, with their apparent simplicity and repetitive motif,
constitute a powerful identifying factor for the water sports center. From this point of view they embody the graphic identity of the building.
Made by Lorenzo Ponzelli and Francesco Valentini who worked on the concept of clean lines but present with character, The development of different models of handles has materialized with the introduction of new shapes not only in the classical sphere but also in contemporary production. The contemporary line, which offers a large collection with a refined and essential taste at the same time, is embellished with a new element.
Aqualung is the new brass handle by MANDELLI1953 born and created with Franco Poli designer collaboration. The application on the door
also provides in this case the possibility of requesting the handle in two options: rose or integrated plate.
“ Aqualung, a respirator. Biomorphism has always inspired me and in the ancient and modern Italic repertoire there is the dolphin,
we find it in all the cultures of the Mediterranean; as a fountain, as a decoration and as a handle.
Bronze sculptures, large fountains or drinking fountains like that of Verrocchio in Florence,in Italy you can see thousands of dolphins in the squares.
Well, it seemed nice to me to take up such a widespread aquatic symbol in a modern and non-descriptive key, transferring only a sign, a part for the whole, a dip ... a wave.
This is Aqualung, an old designer's homage to our culture, the real one "