22.7.09

a real life tranformer

Introducing Prada Transformer, a collaboration between the Prada Foundation and iconic Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaus.

"The interesting thing about this building is the acknowledgement of the transformer as a dynamic organism, opposed to simply a static object, which arbitrarily fits program. Prada Transformer helps add an extra dimension regarding the treatment of this typology by allowing it to be moulded in real time, depending on the specific programs it intends to facilitate inside."
– Rem Koolhaas

Is kinetic architecture the future of architectural design? Is is inspired progression or is it indulgent excess?

Learn more about the Prada Transformer
here.

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Images from
the NY Times, Art in America, and Designboom.com

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