Stimulation between latent force and physical matter

Zaha Hadid Architects were invited by Interni to design an installation for the exhibition ‘Mutant Architecture and Design’, a Fuori Salone Event of this year’s Milan Furniture Fair. The installation is located in the ‘Cortile del ‘700’ of the Università degli Studi of Milan. 

The project is a contemporary interpretation of traditional courtyard architecture; transforming rigid Cartesian geometries into a linear fluidity of dynamic space.

Following the courtyard’s natural contours and the forces that flow towards its centre, the design is then further informed by the gradient of its arches, creating a powerful vortex of spatial distortion that instigates a dialogue with the surrounding colonnade. 

The light source, especially selected for this project by Artemide , includes LEDs, RGB dynamic light and white light, configured in order to provide the different required performances.

In this lighting project, Artemide implemented a concept of environmental quality aimed at subtraction – less matter, less energy, overcoming perception and formal chaos.

Visitors are invited to explore the sculptural sensibility and formal dynamic of disparate elements in which voids express form as much as solids. 

Each piece can be read not only as a whole, but as fragments captured in a magnetic field. A margin of strangeness invites a stimulation that has evolved between latent force and physical matter. 

More information at www.zaha-hadid.com/exhibitions/twirl