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Burkinabé architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has created a temporary retail space for shoe brand Camper inside a domed building at the Vitra Campus. Kéré’s installation at the Swiss furniture brand’s headquarters, comprises two ring-shaped structures filled with shelves for displaying both information and shoes.
It was constructed to coincide with the Making Africa exhibition at the nearby Vitra Design Museum, in which the architect’s work is featured, and the Camper: Life on Foot exhibition at London’s Design Museum.
“The Vitra and Camper pop-up project gives visitors to the Vitra Campus a chance to experience a real-life example of Kéré’s work,” said a statement from Vitra.
The tent-like structure is held up by a triangular grid of aluminium poles, and was added to Vitra’s campus at Weil am Rhein, Germany, in 2000 to provide a flexible event space. Accessed through a triangle-shaped opening in the material, the dome is currently hosting Kéré’s two connected oval structures.
The concentric shelving units are constructed from a wood-based material called blockboard – made by Vitra-owned company Vizona – with larger surfaces covered in white laminate, while the wood grain is left exposed along the edges.
The wider, lower ring contains teasers from the two exhibitions, including samples of Kéré’s work and examples of Camper’s stores by designers including Kengo Kuma, Nendo and the Bouroullec brothers.
The taller inner structure displays designs from Camper’s Autumn Winter 2015-16 range towards the bottom, and stacks of the Spanish brand’s signature red shoe boxes around the top.
Multiple gaps in the structures allow access to the central space, which is open at the top to let in the light filtered through the translucent dome.
The Vitra Campus comprises a group of buildings, pavilions and structures designed by some of the world’s most famous architects. Along with older projects by Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron and Tadao Ando, recent additions have included a viewing tower with a slide by Carsten Höller and a tiny wooden cabin by Renzo Piano.
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