![]() ![]() Luke Edward Hall design for Richard Ginori. “When he shared his ideas for the installation, we were so excited by the material innovation and what it could mean for the future of design.” The colour “Arthur has a keen understanding of materials, something that is very important to us at Cos and an area we wanted to focus on in Milan this year,” Gustafsson says. This lab, along with others based around Milan, has been working full pelt to create the 700 biobricks for Mamou-Mani’s installation.Īlthough Conifera has been printed, its geometry doesn’t feel perfect, and the material has a rough texture. His east London studio is also home to his own digital fabrication laboratory called FabPub which contains a vast robotic 3D printer. Mamou-Mani graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 2008, then worked for Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel before going solo in 2011. “We were inspired by the way his process opens up new architectural opportunities by harnessing the power of technology and community.” “It featured on our mood board for spring/summer 2019,” she says. It was this that got him noticed by Karin Gustafsson, creative director of fashion brand Cos. Mamou-Mani has taken his students from the University of Westminster there for years on field trips, but in 2018 his Galaxia installation – named after a utopia in Isaac Asimov’s books – was picked as the Burning Man temple, a focal point of the festival. The summer solstice celebration is held in the Nevada desert each year, with revellers building a temporary settlement. ![]() This is not the first of Mamou-Mani’s installations to appear at a festival, though Milan is a pretty different setting from Burning Man. ![]() The installation’s name, Conifera, references the Douglas fir trees that are a part of that mix. “It’s a fully renewable material,” Mamou-Mani says. For the installation in Milan, a wood version is made from a pulp added to the bioplastic mix. In its raw form, this is a clear pellet made of glycerine, vinegar and starch. The installation is then built from “biobricks” – a newly developed 3D printed form made from bioplastic. “Instead of drawing a form, then imposing that like a sculpture on the world, we take parameters derived from materials, environment, culture – and use all those variables to make a model on a computer. The architect, whose work is an uncanny mix of high technology and natural materials, specialises in a new kind of digitally designed and made architecture called parametric design which uses algorithms to create geometric patterns using a set of rules. Exit points along the way allow visitors to examine the structure up close from within, then step outside to see the grander vision as a whole. Inspired by the forms of Gaudí arches, three interconnected domes creep from a central courtyard, into the palazzo and straight on to the peaceful garden. Paris-born, London-based architect, coding expert and lecturer Arthur Mamou-Mani is the creator of this year’s Cos installation, shown at the 16th-century Palazzo Isimbardi from tomorrow. ![]()
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