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House in Motion for Milan Design Week 2018
Contemporary Architectural Installation at Interni, Milano, Italy – design by Stanton Williams
17 Apr 2018
House in Motion at Milan Design Week 2018
Design: Stanton Williams
Location: Milan, Italy
Stanton Williams reveal Canopy of Light pavilion at Interni: House in Motion for Milan Design Week 2018

Baldacchino by Stanton Williams © Saverio Lombardi Vallauri
Entitled Baldacchino in reference to ornamental canopies above altars or thrones, Stanton Williams? experimental 6m long pavilion interprets the House in Motion theme by giving physical form to the idea of movement through space. Baldacchino will be located at the Università degli Studi di Milano, one of three different locations for the Interni House in Motion exhibition from 16-28 April.
The exhibition invited architects and designers to respond to ideas of residence, mobility, and transformable space within the home and also consider the notion of nomadic, transient habitats.
Stanton Williams? pavilion combines space and movement to form a work of choreographic architecture that points to how permanent spaces are continually transformed and repurposed over time.
Architectually, motion is achieved by spatially compressing a spiral pathway that is then ?released? at the focal point of the pavilion. Here, a baldacchino canopy of light hovers over a horizontal plane designed for ...