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Tendance : 8 manières d'adopter le style Bauhaus à la maison

L'esprit minimaliste de la célèbre école allemande est toujours d'actualité pour des intérieurs rationalisés

Anne Ambaud 11 juillet 2019

Contributrice Houzz, architecte d'intérieur et décoratrice

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Le Bauhaus est une école d’architecture et d’arts appliqués, fondée en 1919 à Weimar, en Allemagne. Son enseignement repose sur le principe de mêler intimement art et artisanat. Pour cela, son fondateur, l’architecte Walter Gropius, voulait réussir le pari de « l’union du beau et de la raison », soit de la création et de l’industrie. Courant majeur dans l’histoire de l’architecture, synonyme d’une grande modernité, le mouvement Bauhaus inspire encore aujourd’hui nos intérieurs. Voici nos conseils pour réussir un aménagement de style Bauhaus chez soi.

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1. Choisir des pièces de mobilier emblématiques
De grands noms de l’architecture et du design ont enseigné à l’école du Bauhaus. Ils ont signé quelques pièces de mobilier qui sont devenues des icônes au fil du temps, facilement identifiables. Le fauteuil Barcelona de Mies Van der Rohe (qui dirigea l’école de 1930 à 1933) fait partie de ces éléments de mobilier Bauhaus indémodables dont l’ergonomie et le design traversent les âges sans prendre une ride.

Studio Ezra

Marcel Brauer fut une autre grande figure de cette école moderniste. Sa signature tient en l’utilisation de l’acier tubulaire pour créer des assises. Sa chaise B32 reprend ce principe avec un piétement et un dossier d’un seul tenant en métal courbé. Le dossier et l’assise sont garnis de cannage avec une armature en hêtre clair ou foncé. Très en vogue actuellement cette chaise se marie avec tout type de décoration contemporaine tout en étant un pur produit du Bauhaus.

Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects

2. Avoir une décoration épurée
Les fioritures et autres ornements décoratifs n’ont pas leur place dans le style Bauhaus. On privilégie la sobriété et les espaces peu chargés. Le mot d’ordre étant d’aller à l’essentiel, on choisira des meubles fonctionnels qui correspondent à un besoin.

L’agencement et la manière de disposer les meubles sont aussi très importants. Dans la pièce de vie, on installera le mobilier de manière symétrique, en le choisissant de volume égal pour créer une cohérence et une unité. Un grand tapis carré permet également d’ordonner canapés et fauteuils du salon.

Philip Kistner Fotografie

3. Privilégier les lignes sobres
Dans la conception de votre intérieur, privilégiez les lignes droites et les formes géométriques. Les courbes et arabesques ne sont presque jamais utilisées, ne représentant rien d’autres qu’un élément décoratif, sans fonctionnalité. Pas de superflu : l’habitat doit être au service de ses usagers et s’adapter à leur quotidien.

Peters Fotodesign

4. Le choix de matériaux bruts
Les matériaux jouent un rôle important dans l’aménagement d’un intérieur et sont placés au centre du processus de conception. On choisit des matériaux bruts et résistants : le métal, le bois, le béton et le cuir. L’apparat n’ayant pas sa place, on peut laisser les matériaux de construction dans leur état naturel sans chercher à les embellir ni à les cacher, en valorisant ainsi une esthétique qui leur est propre. C’est l’un des piliers de l’architecture Bauhaus.

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Vicky Hellmann Interiors

5. Mettre le blanc à l’honneur
L’esprit minimaliste du Bauhaus et sa quête d’espace épuré incitent à opter pour des teintes claires. Murs et plafonds sont peints en blanc. Au sol, on peut trouver du parquet, du béton ciré dans des tonalités de gris clair ou de la pierre, pour peu qu’elle n’ait pas un aspect trop rustique.

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6. Oser des touches de couleurs vives
Si l’essentiel de l’intérieur est blanc, on peut cependant jouer avec la couleur, à condition qu’elle soit franche. On placera donc des notes de couleurs primaires, sur des façades de meubles ou de placards, les dessus de tables basses ou des textiles, en s’inspirant du travail de Klee et Kandinsky, deux peintres ayant enseigné au Bauhaus. Le noir rehausse, souligne et offre un aspect graphique très apprécié pour peu qu’il soit utilisé par petites touches.

Markus Mucha

7. Décloisonner de grands espaces
Les espaces intérieurs doivent être le plus ouverts possible, pour mettre en valeur le volume et la sensation d’espace. Si vous habitez une maison avec des niveaux, tentez d’aménager un espace dit cathédrale, comme le salon, profitant de toute la hauteur du bâti et, si possible, donnant sur des ouvertures extérieures.

BAU-WERK-STADT Architekten Thomas Bechtold

8. Apporter de la lumière naturelle
Les ouvertures jouent un rôle primordial, car elles offrent un apport de lumière naturelle très recherché. Cet apport de lumière, qui varie en fonction du moment de la journée, permet aussi de créer des jeux d’ombre qui offrent des dessins très graphiques, changeants au fil des heures.

Gene-Editing-Induced Changes in Ant Social Communication Cement the Insect’s Utility for Biomedical Research

Mutations made using CRISPR and other manipulations reveal molecular basis of social behavior in ants

The ant Harpegnathos saltator is an emerging model system to study how epigenetic processes regulate brain function and behavior because adult workers retain the ability to switch into reproductive individuals that act like queens. This image shows a Harpegnathos saltator worker ant in the process of stinging a cricket to paralyze it and drag it into the nest as part of its hunting duties.

Credit: Brigitte Baella.

PHILADELPHIA – Ants have proven themselves to be the newest (and brightest) animal model on the laboratory block. Nevertheless, “ants-as-animal-model” darlings is a fairly new thing. But not for Shelley Berger, PhD, and Roberto Bonasio, PhD, from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. For the last decade, Berger, Bonasio, and colleagues from the NYU School of Medicine and Arizona State University (ASU), have been working with several ant species (and other animal models) to tease out the molecular inner workings of aging, cancer, and brain neuroscience, among other areas. The Berger and Bonasio labs look at changes in DNA itself as well as changes in how DNA is expressed (the field of epigenetics) to accomplish these discoveries. Berger is the Daniel S. Och University Professor in the department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Bonasio is an assistant professor of Cell and Developmental Biology.“Social insects such as ants are outstanding models to study how gene regulation affects behavior,” Bonasio said. “This is because they live in colonies comprised of individuals with the same genomes but vastly different sets of behaviors.” The colony typically includes one queen, carrying out all the egg-laying, and numerous workers, who sacrifice reproduction to provide all other tasks for the group.

This week, in a pair of papers published in Cell, the team turned to an ant species — the Indian jumping ant (Harpegnathos saltator) — that does not behave like most ants. In this species any female worker can change into a “pseudo-queen,” in the absence of the true queen and establish dominance on her colony. Berger and colleagues genetically engineered this species in different ways using now-famous CRISPR technology that dramatically changed their social and reproductive behavior.

“In the broadest sense, these studies suggest, albeit indirectly, that the human brain might also be subject to this type of molding,” Berger said. “Better understanding, biochemically speaking, how behavior is shaped could reveal insights into disorders in which changes in social communication are a hallmark, such as schizophrenia or depression.”

In one study, a CRISPR-engineered mutation in the orco gene disabled the ants’ sense of smell. Mutant ants displayed asocial behavior, such as not interacting with other ants in the colony, not foraging for food, and not displaying pre-mating grooming.

In these orco mutants, there is stunting of projections made by odor receptors on neurons in ant antennae into the smell center of the ant brain. Ants exhibit cooperative social behaviors that depend on chemical odors called pheromones. The orcogene encodes the co-receptor of all odor receptors and mutations in orco significantly impact ants’ sense of smell, and therefore social communication.

In the other study, Bonasio and colleagues injected the brain chemical corazonin into ants transitioning to become a pseudo-queen, which suppressed expression of a brain protein called vitellogenin. This change stimulated worker-like hunting behaviors, while inhibiting pseudo-queen behaviors, such as dueling and egg deposition.

Further, when the team analyzed proteins the ant brain makes during the transition to becoming a pseudo-queen, they found that corazonin is similar to a reproductive hormone in vertebrates. More importantly, they also discovered that release of corazonin gets turned off as workers became pseudo-queens. Corazonin is also preferentially expressed in workers and foragers from other social insect species. In addition to corazonin, several other genes were expressed in a worker-specific or queen-specific way.

Now that ant mutants are a reality, Berger, Bonasio, and their collaborators are primed to make important discoveries on how these and other genes control social behavior in ants and other animals.

In addition to Berger, the senior authors of the ant mutant study are Danny Reinberg at NYU School of Medicine, Claude Desplan at NYU, and Jürgen Liebig at ASU. The study on the behavioral effects of corazonin was performed largely by Janko Gospocic, a postdoctoral fellow in the Bonasio laboratory, with contributions by Emily Shields, a doctoral student in Genomics and Computational Biology and Karl Glastad, a postdoctoral fellow in the Berger laboratory, as well as Reinberg, Liebig, and Tim Linksvayer from Penn. Berger is also director of the Penn Epigenetics Institute.

The ant epigenetic project was funded by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Collaborative Initiative Award (HCIA #2009005). Ant research in the Bonasio lab is funded by the National Institutes of Health (DP2MH107055), the Searle Scholars Program (15-SSP-102), the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation (KA2016-85223), and a Linda Pechenik Montague Investigator Award.

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Buyer’s Remorse Turns to Buyers Rejoice

by Diane M. Fiske, FOR THE INQUIRER

About three years ago, Karen and Tom Getzen moved into a 2,200-square-foot house almost surrounded by the beautiful Wissahickon woods in Chestnut Hill.

“We looked at the house in the dead of winter and fell in love with the woods and bought it,”  says Karen.

It was more than the bucolic charm of the location that drew them, she says: They wanted a place to live as they grew older, one with fewer steps and requiring less maintenance than their Mount Airy home did.

But as sometimes happens with quick infatuation, the Getzens soon fell out of love with their new home.

There was little light in the three tiny rooms at the back of the house — the kitchen, the laundry room, and a mudroom.

The door leading to a beautiful deck in back had no window, and it was difficult to access the deck.

A cabinet blocked the view of the dining area from the kitchen, which could be entered only from the front foyer. To get to the dining room, you had to walk  around the first floor.

So when Tom, who taught health economics at Temple University, retired, the couple hired architect Elie-Antoine Atallah, principal at Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects in Center City, to make the house more livable.Two of his main tasks, Atallah says, were to add to the light at the rear of the house and consolidate all those tiny rooms.

“The house was designed in the ’70s by a couple who had a vision but no architectural training,” he says.

To show Tom and Karen what he had planned, Atallah made three-dimensional renderings. The walls between the kitchen, laundry room, and mudroom were removed, producing a single long room of 325 square feet.

Three windows were installed in the upper walls of the kitchen on the north side. On the south side, a doorway leading to the dining room from the kitchen ensured that people could enter the area directly.

A new door with a window was installed leading to the yard from the kitchen, and new sliding glass doors replaced the originals so the Getzens could get to their deck easily.

Food storage, electrical utilities and other features are now housed in floor-to-ceiling walnut cupboards that eliminated a cabinet jutting out into the kitchen. A long quartz-covered island with stools for casual meals occupies the center of the new space.

Because the couple frequently take care of their granddaughter, who plays on the floor, Karen, 65, says she loves the new oak there, as well as the enhanced lighting. (She now teaches writing part time at Chestnut Hill College, having retired from her full-time division-head post there.)

Until the changes were made, Karen says, she didn’t realize just how wonderful the setting of their house was. It’s now easy to open and close the sliding glass doors leading from the dining room to the deck and offering an expansive vista.

A new door in the modern kitchen makes it easy to enter the backyard. In fact, the woods almost seem to want to come inside.

“We eat our meals on the deck from April through October, and later if the weather remains warm,” she says. “We love to watch for birds and look at the changing colors of the trees.”

In the living room, too, the fireplace with white mantel stands under a painting by a family friend, Lois Stecker, that adds a sylvan touch of orange and yellow.

As opposed to walking around the house to get to the dining area from the old kitchen, says Tom, 69, “everything is in a straight line now.”

Both say they appreciate the fact that everything — cooking, dining, storage, laundry — is within easy reach of the kitchen area.

“We spend most of our time here between the kitchen and the patio, and it is wonderful that it is so accessible, ” Karen says.

“You know,” she adds, “I just told Tom that we haven’t had anything to complain about recently about the house since the work was done. Before this, it was a chief topic of conversation.

“I am happy now.”

Published: March 19, 2017

St. Andrews Residence inducted in Chestnut Hill Architectural Hall of Fame 2016

Architectural Hall of Fame winners now a part of neighborhood history
Posted on November 15, 2016 by Kevin Dicciani

The five places inducted last week into the Chestnut Hill Historical Society’s Architectural Hall of Fame are now forever a part of the neighborhood’s rich and diverse historical past.

The CHHS created the Hall of Fame in 2015 to honor the places in Chestnut Hill that are both historically and architecturally significant. This year 10 places were nominated, and more than 1,400 votes from the general public decided the winners, which were announced at a sold-out cocktail gala at the historic home of Hill residents Karen and Jeff Regan. This year’s inductees are as follows:

• Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
• Chestnut Hill Fire Station
• Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Krisheim

•St. Andrews Residence
The winners join last year’s Hall of Fame inductees, which include: the Thomas Mill Covered Bridge (originally built 1731), Gravers Lane Station (Frank Furness, 1883), the Wissahickon Inn (G.W. and W.D. Hewitt, 1883-84), the Margaret Esherick House (Louis Kahn, 1960-61) and the Vanna Venturi House (Robert Venturi, 1962-64).
To join such an historical and important list of places and architects is for this year’s inductees, then, an honor of the highest degree. Below are their reactions to being inducted into the Hall of Fame.
St. Andrews

St. Andrews Residence

The most modern place this year to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, St. Andrews Residence., was designed by owner and architect Elie-Antoine Atallah along with his firm, Studio of Metropolitan Design. The house, completed in 2013, features natural wood, brick and glass interiors and exteriors, a storm water management system, and planting that is local to Pennsylvania. The goal, Atallah said, was to mesh facets of modern architecture with the traditional and classic aesthetics of Chestnut Hill.
Being added to this year’s Hall of Fame was “quite stunning,” Atallah said, and also a reflection of the community’s ability to appreciate quality architecture, be it classic or modern.
“Having a new, modern house being appreciated by the neighborhood is only to prove that the neighborhood is not as fuddy-duddy as most people make it to be, and the fact that people are open to new ideas and new architecture is fantastic,” Atallah said. “And being in the same league as the Esherick House and the Vanna Venturi House is phenomenal.”
Atallah said he and his firm wanted to design the home to keep the footprints as small as possible on the site. He said there were various zoning restrictions due to the site’s slope and the presence of the Wissahickon Watershed, which led to him installing a new storm water management system in the front yard which uses existing paths to filter the water back to the Wissahickon. To further echo the surrounding natural environment in the designs, Atallah said almost all of the plantings on the property are native to the area, from the trees all the way down to the grass.
“The wildlife depends on native species,” he said. “The songbirds, the bees, the insects are all local and related to that same ecosystem, so we tried to preserve that.”
Speaking of the Hall of Fame, Atallah said that having an institution like the CHHS is what helps the community bond over common issues as well as its love of architecture. He said the CHHS is important for many reasons, but its dedication to preserving the environment, nature and character of the neighborhood, in tandem with its willingness to take bold steps into the future, is something that he finds “amazing.”
“It’s very nice to acknowledge that there are wonderful buildings designed by Peabody and George Howe, and by preserving them we can see many examples of good architecture and good environments throughout the ages,” he said. “And by recognizing both old and new places and buildings, we can answer the question: ‘What are we leaving behind for the next generation, what is there for them to look at to see not only what happened in the early-19th century, but also the 21st century?”