Designer Martino Gamper has created a fake front for a "disco" at Coal Drops Yard in London's King's Cross that can house just a few revellers at a time.
The designer's Disco Carbonara is a large facade made from a patchwork of cladding that the designer created from waste offcuts, which hides a tiny disco.
It is supported on a regular scaffolding structure and stands as a "gateway" within the north London shopping complex that is a London Design Festival design district for the first time this year.

The edges of the facade are zigzagged. Together with the positioning of the patchwork cladding this creates the optical illusion that the installation has a concertina form.
"The idea is that you can look at it, but also look into it and experience it," Gamper told Dezeen. A double door at the base of the structure leads into a small space playing disco music with colour-changing lights, that can hold a handful of people.

The cladding for the facade is made from leftover waste from the wood veneer industry, specifically an Italian company called Alpi that Gamper had worked with previously.
He intends to produce tables and other items from the wood surface once the installation is taken down.
"It's quite a tricky brief to make something large-scale, colourful and impressive, that's sustainable and can be produced cheaply and quickly," said Gamper.

The designer made the wood surface by glueing layers of veneer sheeting together in a deli...