Nike’s Stunning Flyknit Feather Pavilion Lights Up the Night at Beijing Design Week

<a href="http://www.bjdw.org/en/" target="_blank">Beijing Design Week</a> is in full swing, and <a href="http://www.nikeflyknitcollective.com/" target="_blank">Nike’s Flyknit Collective</a> Beijing Feather Pavilion is a sustainable stand out from this year's show. Designer Arthur Huang of <a href="http://www.miniwiz.com/" target="_blank">Miniwiz</a> created the interactive <a href="http://inhabitat.com/david-ellis-transforms-piles-of-trash-into-moving-musical-sculptures/" target="_blank">kinetic installation</a>, which moves and morphs as visitors walk around and through it. Taut green cables create the webbed ceiling, which draws and contracts around a collection of <a href="http://www.ecouterre.com/nikes-virtually-seamless-flyknit-sneaker-is-part-shoe-part-sock/">Flyknit sneakers</a>, emulating the movements of the athletes that wear the line.

The innovative Flyknit <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/eco-friendly-sneakers/" target="_blank">sneaker</a> put itself on the map by being the first continuous shoe without seams, as well as sustainable materials.

With the shoe as inspiration, the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/fosterpartners-sand-dune-inspired-uae-pavilion/" target="_blank">pavilion</a> combines both the usage of sustainable materials and a seamlessness that is achieved with the endless grid of colored ropes that cascade from the center of the structure.

Visitors may play, bounce, or exercise on the structure, which creates different spatial movements with the cables that stretch in different angles up to the ceiling, almost glowing in rich hues of purple and green.

<a href="http://inhabitat.com/london-olympic-games-information-pavilion-concept-utilizes-recycled-materials/">The entire pavilion is made from recycled materials</a>, from cables to plastic walls. TPU POLLI- bricks make up the translucent base, which are made from compressed and recycled plastic.

The circular bricks seem to glow with ambient light, which accentuate the green web of cables that create a halo above the Flyknit sneaker display.

Huang is no stranger to recycled materials. The Taipei based designer and his firm have been dedicated to sustainability from the get go, <a href="http://inhabitat.com/ecoark-pavilion-made-from-1-5-million-plastic-bottles/" target="_blank">famously designing the EcoArk</a>, a structure made from 1.5 million recycled PET plastic bottles.

Visitors may play, bounce, or exercise on the structure, which creates different spatial movements with the cables that stretch in different angles up to the ceiling, almost glowing in rich hues of purple and green.