fish skin on the roof

2013.04

for Milan Design Week

Nendo:
A carpet whose form, colour and size can change flexibly thanks to its parts: small overlapping pieces like fish scales or roof tiles.

地毯的形状，颜色和大小可以灵活变化，因为它的部分：鱼鳞或屋顶瓦片等重叠的小块。

Nichetto:
You can’t make the entire carpet out of individual parts or it will be cumbersome to assemble. We made units out of two, three and four overlapping circles, so that they’re relatively easy to assemble and provide colour variation.

你不能用单个零件制作整个地毯，否则装配会很麻烦。我们用两个，三个和四个重叠的圆圈制作单元，这样它们相对容易组装并提供颜色变化。

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if the pieces are too thick, they would have been bulky when layered, so we explored extremely thin, high quality materials. The result: since the carpet has so many connecting points, it’s ideal for concealing the home appliance, lighting, phone charger and other electrical cables that overflow in modern daily life.

如果碎片太厚，分层时它们会很笨重，所以我们探索了极薄，高质量的材料。结果是：由于地毯有如此多的连接点，因此非常适合隐藏现代日常生活中溢出的家用电器，照明设备，手机充电器和其他电缆。