THOC (Cyprus Theater Organization), commissioned Draw Collective to design a bar to be installed at the foyer of the new THOC building, designed by Kythreotis Architects.
The bar extends seven meters in length, formed from approximately ninety-five identical wooden slats. Each slat is cut from a single piece of wood, its narrow edges delicately painted in a soft bluish tone. When assembled along the front façade, these repeated vertical elements become a field of subtle motion, a surface that shifts and transforms as one moves around it.
The slats are designed to rotate 360 degrees along the bar’s façade. At 90° and 270°, the painted edges disappear, their color concealed from view. Between these angles, the light blue hue re-emerges, creating a dynamic visual interplay of appearance and disappearance, light and shadow, depth and flatness.
This quiet choreography turns a functional structure into an optical and emotional experience. The bar is minimal yet expressive; static yet alive. It captures the essence of theatre, transformation through perspective, while celebrating the honesty of material and precision of craftsmanship.
The project won the German Design Award Winner 2018 for the category Excellent Comminucations Design - Retail Architecture.
Jury statement: "The adroit deployment of wooden slats, combined with coloured edges, creates an intriguing optical effect that makes this bar highly distinctive".
http://www.german-design-award.com/en/the-winners/gallery/detail/17553-bar-installation.html
Designed with:
Marina Sofroniou and Marios Charalambous.
Year: 2014.
Photo credits: Pashalis Panteli.
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