ciro najle general design bureau

Biombo is a system of spatial partition based on the disproportionate repetition of sleeves running in parallel, on their linear displacement along their transversal axis, on their rhythmical joining along their longitudinal one, and on the curvature they acquire in both directions (an organizational curvature in the first, a surface curvature in the second). The system simultaneously produces differential transparency and unstable stability through the variation of proximity, density, curvature, directionality.

 

Following the rich tradition of devices for the temporary segregation of space to assure privacy, Biombo aims at but never really achieves total visual protection. Based on the use of zero thickness as a means of opacity, Biombo obsessively searches for a way to opacity. The control of quantity, fineness, and redundancy breed a perpetually insufficient form of visual control, a formal exasperation grounded on the paradox of division through transparency and of compactness through thinness.