Camille Walala decorates "kids' dream house" with more than two million Lego pieces
French designer Camille Walala has created a life-sized toy house inside a series of shipping containers to mark the launch of Lego Dots, the toy company's latest product.
The House of Dots has all the hallmarks of a regular home ? a living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom ? spread out over a two-story complex of eight containers in London's Coal Drops Yard.
But instead of just paint, the designer's colourful, richly-patterned style is realised primarily through more than two million pieces of a new product called Lego Dots.
Unlike the brand's classic bricks, this new range features flat, 2D tiles in different colours and geometric shapes, which can be combined into an array of patterns and used to adorn surfaces.
For the installation, these were placed individually and by hand onto large, Lego base plates, which in turn were mounted to the surface of the different plywood furniture pieces and home decor elements.
"The tiles are the literal building blocks of the design," Walala told Dezeen.
"I worked with Dots of different scales, starting with the smallest, one-centimetre tile and using it to create patterns around the house ? on cushions, walls and even the window on the facade."
This posed a unique design challenge because, unlike most other materials, the pieces couldn't simply be cut to any desired size or shape.
"I had to design to Lego's scale, thinking in terms of how many tiles we?d need to make a particular pattern," said Wala...
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