French studio Heams & Michel Architectes has updated a public square in Cannes with seven prefabricated aluminium kiosks that can be adapted to various uses.
Named 7 Kiosks, the project forms part of a wider effort to renovate the Allées de la Liberté, a street between the port and the old town that holds local markets.
Heams & Michel Architectes has created seven kiosks in Cannes
Heams & Michel Architectes designed the seven independent kiosks with identical boxy aluminium structures, each wrapped in powder-coated aluminium panels. These are then shrouded in a net-like facade made from a repeating triangular pattern.
To minimise disruption to the busy site during construction, each structure was prefabricated in a local workshop before being transported to the street. They are dotted along a public square
"The aim was to create small-scale buildings whose design is between art and architecture," studio co-founder Benjamin Michel told Dezeen.
"We wanted objects with a simple, clean shape that take place silently in the complex urban space."
The kiosks are designed for various uses
Also made from powder-coated aluminium, the latticed facade is supported by a thicker horizontal grid and designed to cast playful shadows across each kiosk.
"The elevations are made up of a double skin formed by lattices that rest on a horizontal line grid," Michel explained. "The triangle-based design plays with the Mediterranean light that casts ...