Alessi Mutants

Chameleon

Exhibited in the Austrian Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Pavilion this Tea & Coffee Breakfast explores and reinvents the relationship between architecture and industrial object, focusing on a series of small-scale furniture-object studies. These serve as conceptual origin for the unfolding of shapes and surfaces creating a small environment that by hybridization is removed from any initial typology or utilitarian determination. The projects begin as architectural investigation of Alessi typology, and are informed by the contemporary discourse on generative processes and manufacture. The projects will redefine the notion of physical space by warping, pulling and pushing the boundaries of the small objects until they arrive at and constitute new and unfamiliar interior landscapes. In one instance, a series of table objects are transformed into a life sized relief from which flows, as if in motion, an elegant desk.

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