Wood pallets like you’ve never seen before

Wood pallets like you’ve never seen before

Friday 23 Mar 2012

Christopher Nolan’s 2010 film Inception may have left many with stitched brows and confused looks. Few though could forget the scenes of Paris dissolving, rebuilding, and folding in on itself. French architect Stephane Malka has imagined a similar vision of architectural flux, but one brought to life through the pragmatic re-appropriation of wooden shipping pallets.

For a recently completed study for a student residence in Paris, Malka has envisioned a building sheathed in a skin composed of modular wooden pallets. According to Domus, Malka’s proposed façade is a lattice of wooden pallets connected with horizontal hinges, which allow for the extension and contraction of the pallets.

The pallets function like large shutters, opening and closing for privacy, but arranged to inform the overall geometry of the exterior, which becomes charged with a dramatic sense of movement.

Source: Architizer News

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