Oftentimes special designs have a tendency to take us back to a place in our life we had long forgot, and stored between the hippocampus and the amygdala in a dusty trunk filled with knick knacks. The winning entry for the polish pavilion at the 2010 world expo in Shanghai brought us back to our elementary school days, where we spent countless hours meticulously creating snow flakes with nothing but paper and scissors. Designed by architects Wojciech Kakowski, Marcin Mostafa and Natalia Paszkowska is a boxy structure draped with an intricate skin, which resembles those same paper cut-outs.
The cut-outs will allow for columns of natural light to enter the interior of the facility, and provide viewing windows to the surrounding landscape and expo sites. In the evening, the facility will appear as a negative of itself thanks to multi-colored light seeping through the pattern.
