Pipeline Installation
by DOSIS

On the morning of February 26, 2020, Felipe Baptista Oliveira presented his first autumn-winter collection as creative director of KENZO in the V district of Paris. In the same place where the Romans once settled, René Descartes alternated thoughts of geometry and philosophy, Pierre and Marie Curie strolled while discussing their point of view on radioactivity, or the Situationists practiced la derive, two young Spanish architects, Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro, made sure during the last week of February 2020 that the itinerant and instantaneous architecture they had created worked properly for the event that was being produced for Kenzo.

Places remain and time flows. Maybe not. Isabel and Ignacio have long been determined to make instant cities, inspired by those imagined by Peter Cook for Archigram. Cities that flow through space-time, moving where society needs them. Before even finishing the degree, at the same university that Peter Cook himself directed, they imagined facades that flew and moved through the city detached from the building that once held them.

Since then, time has passed, but their interest in making architecture focus on life, on events, and not on style, is the constant that defines their work. ‘Architecture is about life, everything else is circumstantial’ – they passionately affirm.

If the KENZO autumn winter 2020 collection is a collection inspired by nomadism and travel, in the richness of transit, the architecture that welcomes it is essentially nomadic. It is a living structure that practices the situationist derive, moving around the world without a pre-established destination. It also shares the transformable quality with the KENZO FW20 collection. As in previous DOSIS works – the studio founded by Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro in 2006 – the structure they have created is reconfigurable and transformable. It dynamically adapts to every situation and every location. It is a living structure that transmutes depending on the conditions of the ecosystem that hosts it.

Last February Paris saw the birth of the latest pneumatic creation of DOSIS, now the world is a latent space, to receive it instantly in an indeterminate time.

Credits:
Architects: Dosis
Lead Architects: Isabel Collado, Ignacio Peydro, Luis Francisco Núñez, Irache Portillo, Claudia Alonso, Alberto Bandín, Beatriz Sanz
Fashion Show Production: Bureau Betak
Engineering Consultants: Tristan Simmonds, Juan Lastra
Membrane Design And Assembly: Arquitextil – Lastra & Zorrilla
Surface: 1500 m²
Location: Paris, France
Date: 2020
Photography: Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)

 

Architects: DOSIS

DOSIS is a laboratory of creative processes founded by Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro that is committed to pushing the boundaries of the built environment with innovative architectural solutions. In each of their projects, the design strategies and solutions are a reflection of design research, using practice as an experimentation platform in which architecture navigates a wide scope of design interests that transcend basic pragmatic requirements to achieve extraordinary results. Each project is undertaken as an opportunity to explore creative design methodologies, strategies and solutions, always driving their attention towards the feasibility of building technology, structural systems and sustainable environmental strategies.

We are a multidisciplinary architecture & design firm with a team formed by extraordinary architects and designers with expertise on architecture, urban design, landscape, graphic, furniture & object design, 3D modeling, digital manufacturing and virtual reality. This holistic approach to design allows the team to tackle each project from a wide range of directions to acquire the best results.

We operate globally because we believe that design is knowledge, and knowledge has no physical restrictions even when it addresses local conditions. We seek excellence in all of our work, as a result, it has been widely published around the globe, our projects have been exhibited in London, Geneva, San Francisco, Paris, Madrid and Valencia and have been awarded with multiple international prizes and awards.