The summer solstice celebration is held in the Nevada desert each year, with revellers building a temporary settlement. This is not the first of Mamou-Mani’s installations to appear at a festival, though Milan is a pretty different setting from Burning Man. The installation’s name, Conifera, references the Douglas fir trees that are a part of that mix. “It’s a fully renewable material,” Mamou-Mani says. For the installation in Milan, a wood version is made from a pulp added to the bioplastic mix. In its raw form, this is a clear pellet made of glycerine, vinegar and starch. The installation is then built from “biobricks” – a newly developed 3D printed form made from bioplastic. “Instead of drawing a form, then imposing that like a sculpture on the world, we take parameters derived from materials, environment, culture – and use all those variables to make a model on a computer. The architect, whose work is an uncanny mix of high technology and natural materials, specialises in a new kind of digitally designed and made architecture called parametric design which uses algorithms to create geometric patterns using a set of rules. Exit points along the way allow visitors to examine the structure up close from within, then step outside to see the grander vision as a whole. Inspired by the forms of Gaudí arches, three interconnected domes creep from a central courtyard, into the palazzo and straight on to the peaceful garden.
Paris-born, London-based architect, coding expert and lecturer Arthur Mamou-Mani is the creator of this year’s Cos installation, shown at the 16th-century Palazzo Isimbardi from tomorrow.
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