Taking inspiration from the COS collection, the Forest of Light installation explores ideas of interaction and perspective; the darkened space is illuminated by towering cones of light that are designed to respond to visitors’ movements.

“People meander through this forest, as if lured by the charm of the light. Light and people interact with one another, its existence defining the transition of the other”
– Sou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto Installs a "Forest of Light" for COS at 2016 Salone del Mobile. Photography by  Riccardo Dubitante. A collaboration of the Swedish fashion retailer COS and Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto on 2016 Salone del Mobile, in Milan.

With fog and specially-composed sounds creating an immersive environment, mirrored walls imagine an infinite landscape where the conical spotlights become abstracted trees, joining together to form a shifting forest of light.
 
"In this installation for COS, I envisage to make a forest of light. A forest which consists of countless light cones made from spotlights above." said Fujimoto.

 
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Filmed at his Tokyo studio, architect Sou Fujimoto speaks to COS about the story behind Forest of Light…

 

 

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Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido, Japan, on August 4, 1971. He graduated in architecture from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Engineering in 1994. He established his own architectural practice, Sou Fujimoto Architects, in Tokyo in 2000, and has been a professor at Kyoto University since 2007.

He came to international attention in 2005 when he won the renowned AR – International Architectural Review Awards in the Young Architect category, an award he received three consecutive years, the first in 2006.

In 2008, he won the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) Award and the World Architecture Festival Award in the Private Houses section. In 2009, Wallpaper magazine awarded him its design award. Sou Fujimoto published "The Primitive Future" in 2008, one of the best-selling architectural books of that year. His architectural projects always seek new forms and spaces between nature and artifice.

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Published on: April 24, 2016
Cite:
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
"Forest of Light by Sou Fujimoto. Best Installations of Salone del Mobile 2016" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/forest-light-sou-fujimoto-best-installations-salone-del-mobile-2016> ISSN 1139-6415
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