Fanjie Jin-LookingOutwards-11

Nataly Gattegno is an artist and one of the two founding partners of FUTUREFORMS. She is primarily focusing on design research and urban speculation through the lens of art and design theory and urban design. She was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She received her MA from Cambridge University and Masters of architecture from Princeton University.

Cosmos is one of their many interactive pavilion designs. It is a dynamic shading canopy that fosters pedestrian interactions and establishes a visual focal point at the site. Cosmos creates an open shaded space for people to fluidly move through and congregate as it provides a contemplative play of shadow and lights. The people around the area would enjoy spending time underneath the artwork’s intricate organic structure and kaleidoscopic skin and depending on the different times of the day, the shadows will be changed. 

I really admire this project as the geometry of the artwork is really stunning and there is a Fibonacci-like Sequence algorithm underlying the three-dimensional structure and skin of the pavilion. The geometry allows the shadow, which is something that’s always very neglectful, to play the main role and even as interesting as the pavilion itself.