SLATTED
Slats. By definition, they are best known as supports for mattresses on beds or pieces of blinds with origins in Venice. However, today wooden slats have become terribly chic, showing off structure, providing for some narrrow peek-a-boo spaces, and allowing light to shine through.
In the following images, slats have allowed the architects to play with relationships between vertical and horizontal, light and dark, and public and private. Furthermore, the slats play interesting roles in rectalinear geometry both indoors and outdoors. The strong, repeated lines they provide will keep them from being just a flash-in-the-pan trend.
In the following images, slats have allowed the architects to play with relationships between vertical and horizontal, light and dark, and public and private. Furthermore, the slats play interesting roles in rectalinear geometry both indoors and outdoors. The strong, repeated lines they provide will keep them from being just a flash-in-the-pan trend.
This image remains one of the most striking I have seen. The slats let the light through while directing visitors through a narrow vertical opening. The slats provide a strong horizontal element, providing a balance between the vertical and the horizontal.
The use of slats as siding here recalls perforated walls in India and to me a wooden version of Edward Durell Stone's experiments with exterior screen effects.
A slatted wooden awning's rectalinear geometry lends a Japanese feel to the architecture.
The slatted wall plays a big part in blurring the line between indoors and outdoors here.
The slatted walls emphasize the horizontal geometry of this spare modern space.
The different slat widths and spacing used here add architectural interest.
Slats can create some great shadows, as this coffee table shows.
Here the slats provide a lovely room divider without creating a visually impenetrable wall.
Here the architect gave careful thought to the play between vertical and horizontal within the greater context of the desert mountain landscape. The slats emphasize ground and horizon, yet rise up a bit to meet the range behind. They help negotiate between the extremes of this dynamic topography.