Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed this year's Milan design week installation for fashion brand COS, which will feature cones of light created by spotlights.
For the brand's fifth installation in Milan, Fujimoto will take over an old theatre in the centre of the city.
His idea is to illuminate the space with spotlights suspended from the high ceiling, creating areas of overlapping beams and shadows as an homage to the building's former use.
"In this installation for COS, I envisage to make a forest of light," said Fujimoto. "A forest which consists of countless light cones made from spotlights above."

"These lights pulsate and constantly undergo transience of state and flow," he continued. "People meander through this forest, as if lured by the charm of the light. Light and people interact with one another, its existence defining the transition of the other." Items of furniture placed under the lights will offer visitors places to stop and sit. COS will also exhibit a selection of white t-shirts as part of the installation.

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"The spotlight becomes an interface which connects fashion, space and forest as a form of architecture," Fujimoto added.
Fujimoto established his architecture studio in 2000 after graduating from Tokyo University. His best-known projects include the Final Wooden House made from chunky timber beams and...