![]() ![]() A deliberately slow, continuous pour and special concrete mix are employed to create each element, in some cases approaching 10 meters tall. The project makes use of a technique of pouring concrete into fabric formwork deployed within plywood rib structures, yielding walls, and columnar roof forms. Arbel has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Award three times and won a World Architecture Festival Award in 2019 for his project 75.9 - a house constructed on a hay farm in the Canadian Pacific Northwest. The project regards the beams as archaeological artifacts resulting from the social and ecological history of the region, as such, they were not milled, cut, or finished, with m*ive geometrical consequence to the plan. Since then he has completed several commercial and residential projects, including 23.2, a freestanding house located in South Surrey, B.C, Canada.23.2 began with a depository of reclaimed, century-old Douglas Fir beams from the local forests of British Columbia. ArchitectureĪrbel launched his own building design practice (OAO) in 2005. Bocci will open a new, permanent exhibition space, also in Berlin, in 2021. In 2015 Bocci opened a 2200qm exhibition space in Berlin.: The showroom closed in 2020. Large, site-specific lighting installations based on Bocci works have been on view at public art ins*utions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Barbican, London. The company launched with one lighting design, ‘14’, which was immediately successful and remains a design staple and bestseller.:The realization that the most successful aspects of 14 were unintended, being rather a consequence of material properties or process, was the impetus for defining Arbel’s open ended method. Founded in 2005 under the artistic principles of Omer Arbel’s method, Bocci is committed to fostering a lateral and open-ended relationship between creative direction and craft. Omer Arbel is the co-founder of Bocci - a design and manufacturing company based in Vancouver and Berlin. Miralles’ death in 2000 brought Arbel back to Canada, where he completed his professional degree in architecture and began working at Patkau Architects in Vancouver. He received a BSc in environmental science from the University of Waterloo in 1997, and began an apprenticeship with Catalan architect Enric Miralles the following year. He competed in fencing for Team Canada at the 1993 Maccabiah Games in Israel. As a youth, Arbel enjoyed considerable success as a compe*ive fencer, making the Canadian Junior National team numerous times and ranking in the top 20 at the Junior World Championships. Early lifeĪrbel was born and raised in Jerusalem until age thirteen, when his family relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The objects, installations, and buildings realized in this way are to some degree unpredictable and variable, a meeting place between nature and technology, a potentially endless series of exceptions for which there is no restrictive rule. Arbel invents processes (manual, mechanical, or chemical) that generate novel forms, privileging *og processes and traditional skills such as gl*blowing, concrete forming, and metalwork as ongoing sources of inspiration and innovation. Arbel's designs are numbered in order of creation (1.1 – 113 at the time of writing). He is one of two co-founders of Bocci, a Canadian design and manufacturing company. His output is broad, including materials research, lighting design, building design and site specific installations. Omer Arbel (born 1976) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Vancouver. ![]()
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