Interior Architecture and Cocooning

Count on Miami’s Luminaire to  come up with thought provoking, very smart, sometimes playful, and always stylish, exhibits at during Design Miami 2009. Another one of my favorites this year (see my earlier blog item) was an installation called The Third Space, an experimental project created by 52 interior design students from Germany. The project combines work of three aspects of study- interior design, product design and designing in free space -and addresses sociological situations, such as profiling or privacy, and translates them into specific spacious situations. Several evoke birds nests and an invitation to cocoon.

The tent like structures are made of spiderweb-like braided mesh, mainly made of cable straps. The concept was conceived by the students and fashioned during 16,870 hours of work with 1,292,300 recyclable cable straps. See me below trying out one of the “nests”.

By: Karen Weiner Escalera

Luminaire's The Third Space - Design Miami 2009