INTERNI 2015 Pavilion Side View;image courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates

Exhibition

Kitchenhouse&Kego Kuma

Milano Salone:14-19 April 2015

INTERNI Energy For Life:14 April-30 May 2015

Kengo Kuma & Associates are participating in the exhibition of “Energy For Life 2015” with kitchenhouse, hosted by magazine INTERNI.

The event is taking place from 13 April to 30 May next year in a venue for Salone at the University of Milan.

INTERNI 2015 Pavilion Perspective View;image courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates

“Fire and Cocoon” is our concept of this time.Kengo Kuma & Associates is presenting a landscape kitchen titled “IRORI,” which can change its scale according to the user’s life style, and a pavilion of 5m in height and 15m in length – a new structure made solely by twisting a paper of 1mm-thick.

They wanted to express a new type of living that centers around “fire” in a soft “cocoon.” 

IRORI

-fire and cocoon-

Human beings have lived always revolving around “fire.” IRORI” is a “freehand kitchen” like a landscape, designed to live life with “fire.”

“IRORI” is composed of bamboo boards and steel pipes. Centering around “fire,” these components can make a table, bench, or shelves at your will by being extended or subtracted.

As your life expands and contracts, so does the kitchen.

The white “cocoon” wrapping up “IRORI” is made of special paper called “vulcanized paper” of 1mm-thick. “The Cocoon” is generated by twisting and weaving this supple paper obi (sash).  It is a starter of a new life with “fire” in the soft “cocoon” at its heart.

-Kengo Kuma

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