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| The sensory pavillion is in the house at Milan Design Week! |
BE OPEN commissioned award-winning architect and designer Christophe Pillet to create the "House of the Senses" - a sensory exploration which calls upon our sixth sense, intuition. The installation challenges pre-conceptions of structure by interplaying unusual materials. Visitors enter a simple black wooden box covered in vegetation. On the three walls of the pavillion are projected a constantly changing series of moving images, whilst the floor and ceiling are made from a reflective material which distorts our impression of space.
"I wanted to give a pared down, almost simplistic vision of
architecture,” says Pillet. “The outside is rather 'quaint' - a simple
black wood box, covered in vegetation. Inside an eclectic,
impressionistic collage of random video images loops in no particular
order. The visitor can only have a visceral response to these very
different experiences - a sensory overload.”
Bringing design and architecture together, the "House of the Senses" creates an intense multi-sensory experience which inventively combines nature, technology and structure.
What next for Pillet? On his "wish list" is creating a space using only light as the material...we can't wait to be enlightened!
Watch the Interview with Christophe Pillet in the House of Senses for a glimpse of the action.
:Read more about BE OPEN's sensory feast at Milan Design Week and catch the review in Dexigner.
