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Rory grew quite attached to this 1:1 model of my facade. The shutter system provides shade from the sun in daytime, and provides a translucent surface with which to project films onto at night. The films can be viewed from both inside and outside the laundry.
The customers doing their ironing in the cafe can see into the cinema and watch the film. This detail uses a laundry basket as a shutter for the windows providing apertures from ironing cafe to cinema. This stops excess light from infiltrating the cinema. The shutter basket folds down to hold dry clothes, and the ironing board folds down over basket for ease of ironing. The section also highlights the bean bag seating in the cinema which are made from lost socks.
Exploring projections onto clothes. Can I use drying clothes as a cinema screen?
This is my latest projection model for my sustainable laundry-cinema, Lavorama. This image shows Lavorama being used at night.
My sustainable laundry-cinema aims to minimise its carbon footprint by drying clothes in the south facade’s “sunspace”. The clothes are hung up to dry in the sunspace, between structure and glass facade. Customers hoist the clothes up the building’s facade, and they dry in the warm rising air. The clothes are hoisted to varying heights depending on levels of sunlight and wind direction. This creates a user decorated facade, that changes according to both climate and occupancy levels.For Animation, please go to this link: YouTube - Projections of Sustainable Laundry
layered projection drawings of existing laundrette, La Muette.