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Split time Café

Split time café
Architects : Philippe Rahm architectes (Philippe Rahm. Collaborateur : Andrej Bernik, Jérôme Jacqmin)
Client : Foc Eybesfeld
Austria, Lebring
Project: 2007

Architecture becomes not only the design of the space but of the time too. To construct a night, to construct a day: it becomes challenging possibilities for the architectural design. “Split times café” is an architectural project splitting the time in three parallel spaces and customers could shift instantly from one moment of the day to an other. Architecture becomes a time –machine, permitting to cross the time, to pass instantly from the day to the night, to shift from the naturalness to the artificial in a fragment of second. Architecture is here literally the art of the construction of time.

-The first temporality, taken in an envelope of clear glass, is, in real time, the time of the natural solar course. 

-An envelope of blue glass defines the second temporality.The wavelengths of this blue light block the secretion of the melatonin in the body. It is therefore a kind of endless day.

-The third temporality is built with a yellow colored glass envelope, blocking the wavelengths of the light responsible for the fall of the melatonin in the body. It reproduces a true physiological night while being luminous like a day. The furniture choice is consequently in association with these temporalities.

 

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