101 Things to Do with Outlawed Speedo LASR WetSuits: Architecture

Designboom has got a nifty little post on a project by some platform 2 students from the Chelsea College of Art & Design. The s_pavilion is an external structure made from LZR Racers, those Speedo wetsuits that gave Michael Phelps his edge at the Beijing Olympics, and Flavia Zocarri the bum's rush a month earlier.

There's something very HR Giger meets Battlestar Galactica here. The team that turned it from its sartorial roots into something more architectural come from different departments...