Warehouse Laboratory

The title WAREHOUSE / LABORATORY stems from the design process. I like to have that kind of freedom in designing a book: not only to develop the edits, but also to play with titles, chapters and words in order to direct the viewer’s attention and shape the editorial content.
PlantLab’s experiments with cultivating crops under totally controlled conditions, which are purely scientific in nature, so the title had to mimic a scientific formula or comparison, like different states of aggregation that are juxtaposed. In this book a building changes from one state – a former warehouse – into another – a laboratory for the future.
The book is divided in four chapters, in line with that same idea of transformation: STAGE 0 / WAREHOUSE, STAGE 1 / DEMOLITION, STAGE 2 / CONSTRUCTION and STAGE 3 / LABORATORY. source: iphorblog.wordpress.com (Robin Uleman)