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Kiki & Joost's Urban Hunting Lodge at Dutch Design Week 2012Dutch designers <a title="Kiki & Joost' Designed A 23 Foot High Mirador for Watching People at Dutch Design Week" href="http://www.kikiworld.nl/" target="_blank">Kiki</a> & <a title="Kiki & Joost' Designed A 23 Foot High Mirador for Watching People at Dutch Design Week " href="http://www.joostvanbleiswijk.com/" target="_blank">Joost</a> created a unique mirador inspired by recreational bird watching, but updated their design to suit spying human behavior. Shaped like a proper <a title="Kiki & Joost' Designed A 23 Foot High Mirador for Watching People at Dutch Design Week " href="http://inhabitat.com/worlds-first-building-made-of-hundreds-of-living-trees/" target="_blank">bird-watching</a> turret, and made from locally sourced wood, the <a title="Kiki & Joost' Designed A 23 Foot High Mirador for Watching People at Dutch Design Week " href="http://www.ddw.nl/news.php?newsID=8cf488ae36903bbd5d380a2f79ad8119" target="_blank">Urban Hunting Lodge</a> features long horizontal windows, a telescope, and colorful paintings to inspire visitors to climb up and take in the views below.1
Kiki & Joost's Urban Hunting Lodge at Dutch Design Week 2012Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven and now share a studio in Strijp.2
Kiki & Joost's Urban Hunting Lodge at Dutch Design Week 2012They craft all sorts of wonderful lamps, cabinets, textiles, and ceramics for brands such like MOOOI, Swarovski, Studio Li Edelkoort, and in this case, for Dutch Design Week.3
Kiki & Joost's Urban Hunting Lodge at Dutch Design Week 2012Joost enjoys getting his inspiration from the past, creating iconic designs and reinterpreting archetypes.4
Kiki & Joost's Urban Hunting Lodge at Dutch Design Week 2012To access the top of the Urban Hunting Lodge, visitors were required to climb up a set of stairs.5
Kiki & Joost's Urban Hunting Lodge at Dutch Design Week 2012The small space was decorated simply with a desk, a trompe-l'œil bookshelf, and a telescope. There was also a guestbook for writing up discoveries and thoughts for other visitors to read.6
Kiki & Joost's Urban Hunting Lodge at Dutch Design Week 2012The 23-foot high mirador offered anybody interested a new way to understand a city and its inhabitants.7
Kiki & Joost's Urban Hunting Lodge at Dutch Design Week 2012Kiki painted the hut red and watercolored the wood beams. Some trompe-l'œil furniture added another dimension to the voyeuristic design.8
Kiki & Joost's Urban Hunting Lodge at Dutch Design Week 2012Part of a series of public installations around Eindhoven called 'Unexpected Interactions', the Urban Hunting Lodge gave the city's inhabitants a birds-eye view of what they thought they already knew.9
