Turning the prosaic into the innovative

Brimming with individuality, colour and natural elements, Mamoru Maeda’s 10 sq. m. atelier packs a radical punch. Located in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh city, T4 Design Studio embodies the offbeat through the architecture it expresses and the vibe it emanates from a specially crafted area that is used particularly to jostle one’s right brain. Mamoru Maeda alludes to the themes of ‘Imagination’ and ‘Rebirth’, denouncing technology’s role in making our world an uninteresting place, where systematization has steadily driven out individuality. Instead, he eliminates stereotypes through innovation while blurring the line between the formal and the informal. The design leverages […]