Unfold - MilanDesignWeek Workshop Installation

The exploration of the interactive relationship of folding and material, form and structural behavior will be translated, in this workshop, into the fabrication of a 1:1 scale pavilion installed in “SBODIO32” and showcased among Milan’s Design Week exhibits. (FouriSalone 14-19 April 2015).

Milan's Design week is the most important event worldwide for design and innovation. This year, the city of Milan will be hosting the "World Expo", one of the most vital events in Milan's contemporary history, integrating an era of modern development; the issue of Milan's unused and Ex-Industrial buildings remains in question.

The workshop aims to approach the re-generation of a forsaken warehouse, named 'SBODIO32', at the edge of Milan's new design district. Unfold aims to explore the relation between the design and materializing of Space; understanding the “moving matter animated by peristaltic movements, folds and foldings. Unfold investigates how this active space exists beyond theory or a computer/animated space, decoding folds into tangible reality.