Assi / Joseph MEIDAN
1987/Ongoing
Working between object, space, and material research. His practice focuses on transformation — observing how materials shaped by construction, use, and time can be redirected through minimal intervention.
His work often begins with situations encountered in everyday environments: construction sites, industrial components, or standardized building systems. Through processes of collection, assembly, and displacement, these elements are recontextualized without erasing their origin.
Moving between unique pieces and evolving systems, his projects explore the moment where functional structures shift into objects of domestic or spatial presence. Light, support, and construction recur as central themes, approached as ongoing investigations rather than fixed forms.
Alongside independent works, he develops Brut Hardware, a modular aluminum framework conceived as an open structure capable of adapting across furniture, exhibition, and architectural contexts.
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07 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / BUREAU411
DOC 062—082
YEAR: 2020/Ongoing
Under Bureau411, architecture is approached as an extension of material and spatial research developed through objects and systems. Projects focus on transformation rather than replacement, working with existing conditions, constraints, and structures as primary design material.
Interventions often begin with what is already present — spaces in transition, reused elements, or unfinished situations — allowing architecture to emerge through adjustment, assembly, and selective intervention. The work seeks clarity through reduction, where construction, use, and atmosphere are closely aligned.
Furniture, spatial systems, and architectural elements are conceived simultaneously, dissolving traditional boundaries between object and space. Structural logic, material continuity, and adaptability guide the design process, producing environments that remain open to change over time.
Across interiors, exhibitions, and built environments, Bureau411 develops spaces where function and perception evolve together, emphasizing durability, precision, and a direct relationship between material presence and experience.
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The architectural practice of Bureau411 has been shaped through an important collaboration with Architect and designer Dror Tshuva, whose partnership has played a central role in the development of these projects.
Interventions often begin with what is already present — spaces in transition, reused elements, or unfinished situations — allowing architecture to emerge through adjustment, assembly, and selective intervention. The work seeks clarity through reduction, where construction, use, and atmosphere are closely aligned.
Furniture, spatial systems, and architectural elements are conceived simultaneously, dissolving traditional boundaries between object and space. Structural logic, material continuity, and adaptability guide the design process, producing environments that remain open to change over time.
Across interiors, exhibitions, and built environments, Bureau411 develops spaces where function and perception evolve together, emphasizing durability, precision, and a direct relationship between material presence and experience.
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The architectural practice of Bureau411 has been shaped through an important collaboration with Architect and designer Dror Tshuva, whose partnership has played a central role in the development of these projects.
