
French architects O-S created this temporary installation at Hotel Saint-Côme in Montpellier, as part of the Festival des Architectures Vives 08.

The installation is made of cardboard boxes, as you can see.

Here’s some info from the architects:
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This small scale temporary project underlines and sublimates the intimate character of the Hotel Saint-Côme’s courtyard, emblem of the 18th century architecture of Montpellier. The courtyard becomes a field of experiences, where a spatial kaleidoscope comes out from nowhere to surprise the visitors.

The raw material of our intervention is made of cardboard materials. We hijacked 40×40cm packaging boxes that generate by accumulation an extruded portico (computing CAD process). A warm, bright and reflective skin covers the interior walls, creating a contrast with the rough external surface.

Nibbling holes offer and provide views and frames between the inside and outside, leading the light deep in this cave. The intensity of feelings varies depending on the position of the stroller, who walks trough this kaleidoscope in a dizzying play of shadows and colours.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs



September 19th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
transcendental. magnificent. revolutionary. worthy of praise. most inspirational internet posting ever.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
superrrrrrrrr. nicee work
September 19th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Vico?
September 19th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Give those boxes to the homeless…I think they could design a better and more interesting shelter with them.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
cool, but nothing more. I Like it.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
sadly, i have to conclude that one must be actually standing in the space to appreciate this properly.
September 20th, 2008 at 11:39 am
It’s just a waste of time, i prefer to use the cardboard boxes for my shopping…It’s like space invaders, old fashion, i hate this trendy has been movement.
September 20th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
cool
September 21st, 2008 at 4:22 am
“The intensity of feelings varies depending on the position of the stroller, who walks trough this kaleidoscope in a dizzying play of shadows and colours.”
man are they handing out tabs of acid with this thing? to me it just looks like boxes and tinfoil
September 21st, 2008 at 6:02 am
Absolutely beautifull!
September 21st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Hey!
There’s some people on the pictures!!
Get rid of them. they’re just messing up the design!:))))))))
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:02 am
Vico, were you paid to post dat??!
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
In the same place I prefer this one
by Oz collective
http://boiteaoutils.blogspot.com/2008/09/ozs-abri-n177-exhibited-in-ivry.html
http://ozcollective.com/www/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=69
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Nice shapes, but what’s in the boxes?
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 am
Sad to say …..this work means something….but not very much…..so I guess my 6 years of education was worthless…..this is unforgivable..