Pipeline Installation / Dosis

Architects: Dosis
Area: 1500 m²
Year: 2020
Photographs: Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero), DCOMDRONE
Manufacturers: Lastra y Zorrilla
Lead Architects: Isabel Collado, Ignacio Peydro, Luis Francisco Núñez, Irache Portillo, Claudia Alonso, Alberto Bandín, Beatriz Sanz
Fashion Show Global Concept and Production: Bureau Betak
Engineering Consultants: Tristan Simmonds, Juan Lastra
Membrane Design and Assembly: Arquitextil – Lastra & Zorrilla
City: Paris
Country: France

Pipeline Installation, designed by Dosis architects Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro, was created for the KENZO Autumn-Winter 2020 collection presented in Paris. This itinerant, instantaneous architecture reflects the studio’s vision of nomadic, reconfigurable structures, drawing inspiration from Peter Cook’s Archigram. The installation embodies a transient nature, aligning with KENZO’s collection theme of nomadism and travel. It adapts to each location and situation, transforming with the ecosystem it inhabits, and exemplifies the architects’ focus on life and events rather than style. This pneumatic structure, premiered in Paris, awaits its next manifestation in the ever-changing world.

On the morning of February 26, 2020, Felipe Baptista Oliveira debuted his first autumn-winter collection as KENZO’s creative director in Paris’s V district. In this historic location, once home to Romans, where René Descartes mused over geometry and philosophy, Pierre and Marie Curie discussed radioactivity, and the Situationists practiced la dérive, two young Spanish architects, Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro, spent the last week of February 2020 ensuring that the itinerant and instantaneous architecture they designed was functioning as intended for the KENZO event.

Places persist while time flows—or perhaps not. Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro have long been committed to creating instant cities, inspired by the visions of Peter Cook for Archigram. These are cities that navigate space-time, appearing where society needs them. Even before completing their degrees at the same university where Peter Cook once taught, they envisioned facades that could move freely through the city, independent of the buildings they once belonged to.

Since then, time has passed, but their commitment to creating architecture centered on life and events, rather than style, remains the defining constant of their work. As they passionately assert, “Architecture is about life; everything else is circumstantial.”

If the KENZO Autumn-Winter 2020 collection draws inspiration from nomadism, travel, and the richness of transit, the accompanying architecture is inherently nomadic as well. It is a living structure that embodies the Situationist concept of la dérive, moving across the globe without a set destination. Sharing the transformable nature of the KENZO FW20 collection, the structure—like previous works by DOSIS, the studio founded by Isabel Collado and Ignacio Peydro in 2006—is reconfigurable and adaptable. It evolves dynamically to suit each situation and location, transforming in response to the specific conditions of the ecosystem it inhabits.

In February 2020, Paris witnessed the debut of DOSIS’s latest pneumatic creation. Now, the world awaits as a latent space, ready to host it at any moment in an undefined future.