Annabel Karim Kassar Architects
Camera Chiara
Annabel Karim Kassar Architects
4. May 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Annabel Karim Kassar
Annabel Karim Kassar Architects shows in the Cortile 700 of the Università Statale in Milan an architectural installation Camera Chiara with two pavilions: Liwan and Camera Obscura.
Conceived to be reused and reassembled in a different location after its launch in Milan: the Liwan as a mobile shelter and the Camera Obscura as an itinerant cinema.
Photo: Courtesy of Annabel Karim Kassar
Invited to the Energy For Creativity exhibition, Annabel Karim Kassar Architects chose to display a monumental architectural structure in the Cortile 700 and a vision of everyday life in a Lebanese room.
Photo: Nicolo Lanfranchi
Through the bellows of old cameras, Kassar symbolizes stills of Lebanese lifestyles brought to life here by the actor-spectators entering, wandering through, contemplating and leaving the space.
Photo: Nicolo Lanfranchi
Two telescopic structures, named Liwan and Obscura respectively, made of raw metal and burnt dark and rough wooden planks face one another not far from Kengo Kuma’s paper structure and Alessandro Medini’s giant red lips.
Photo: Nicolo Lanfranchi
Annabel Karim Kassar not only highlights savoir-faire but also French and Lebanese savoir-vivre. Attracted by the diffuse light from Saint-Gobain’s hand-blown glass, one is in for a rare experience – a piece of interior and a kind of cinema installation.
Photo: Courtesy of Annabel Karim Kassar
Photo: Courtesy of Annabel Karim Kassar
Photo: Nicolo Lanfranchi
Photo: Nicolo Lanfranchi
PROJECT TEAM
Annabel Karim Kassar Architects and Interiors
Architect, Creative Director: Annabel Karim Kassar
Architect, Project Manager: Rabih Zeidan
Interior Architect: Violaine Jeantet
Lighting Designers: Christophe Hascoet, Caï-light, Alain Pin
The Liwan (Drawing: Annabel Karim Kassar)
