INTAKE

Intakes are mechanical apparatus that are anonymously and yet beautifully shaped by fluid-dynamic efficiency and harmony. They restrain the transition of a fluid, symbolizing the sensual transition from exterior to the interior, from solid, bright matter to impalpable void.
INTAKE shifts the conventional door handle concept, where here the hand gradually pervades the void, connects with the mass and gently discovers the opening mechanism.
The purity and integrity generated by the solid mass of the cuboid volume is gently, almost anatomically deformed only where the hand touches and presses against the handle.
In architecture, like on cars, door handles are the first part of the building that is touched by the visitor. INTAKE wants to enhance the tangible experience of physically relating to the building through its surface, mass and weight.



Shiro Studio is a London based design practice committed to the creation of unique architecture and objects. “Making the invisible tangible is one of the Studio permanent features. Poetry, lightness, uniqueness, tactile are the adjectives that I would like to permeate every work produce by the studio”.

Shiro means white in Japanese language. But it implies a philosophical translation, where White is perceived as the most pure and creative attitude. White is the calm state of the paper before receiving the stroke of the pencil. Shiro is the infinitesimal fraction of time before the idea is represented on a blank piece of white paper. From this creative tension between the very moment of inception and the beginning of the design process that purity and integrity of design is found. Inspiration from nature is also a structural and essential component of the design process. The primordial and beautiful complex structures and patters found in bones cells and in the botanical field or nature's efficiency found in materials and energy resources are extraordinary sources of inspiration.

Andrea Morgante (1972) was born in Milan. After working in RMJM London he joins Future Systems architects in 2001 where in 2006 he becomes Associate Director. From 2008 and 2009 he collaborates with Ross Lovegrove, directing several architectural projects. In 2009 establishes SHIRO STUDIO in London.
Currently Andrea Morgante is supervising the construction of the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena and collaborating with companies like D_Shape, DND, Alessi, Agape Design and Poltrona Frau.

Architecture: Shiro Studio