Prada Transformer

The Prada Transformer is an architectural structure created as a collaboration between starchitect Rem Koolhaas and the fashion powerhouse Prada. The project built in Seoul, South Korea, takes the shape of a tetrahedron, a pyramid, with a different shape on each side: a hexagon, a cross, a rectangle and a circle to form a single pavilion:



Now the interesting part. Each of the sides of the pyramid can become the floor of the building. Depending on what the building is to be used for, the building is flipped using cranes to reconfiguring the building. As the press release says "Each side plan is precisely designed to organize a different event installation creating a building with four identities. Whenever one shape becomes the ground plan, the other three shapes become the walls and the ceiling defining the space, as well as referencing historic or anticipating future event configurations."