FLUX COCOON BY ALLEGORY

 

Installed in the heart of the city of Lausanne, Flux Cocoon is one of the winning projects of the the city’s first Light Festival: Lausanne Lumières, which will inaugurate on 23 November.

The project was inspired by its location. Situated at the crossing between vertical and horizontal pedestrian movements (flux). The project is an abstraction of the knot created by the crossing of each pedestrian’s virtual trace at this precise point in the Flon area.

The Flon being the city’s major transportation hub. Lausanne’s topography resulted in creating an amazing cityplan with different ground floor levels; thus it was important for Allegory to create a project visible from a 360° point of view.

Installed in an extremely difficult context, Flux Cocoon is a temporary shelter over the pedestrian bridge and gripped on the vertical elevators’ building.

The project is a created with a primary wood structure and metal cables and 1100m of Red Led Neon Flex lights. The structure sets foot on the existing bridge structure and connects itself to the vertical building containing the elevators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Architect: Allegory

Year: 2012

EMPTYFUL SCULPTURE BY BILL PECHET

 

As part of Winnipeg’s Public Art Program, Vancouver-based Pechet Studio won an international competition to create a public artwork to invigorate the center of the city.

Together with artist Bill Pechet and lighting co-designer Chris Pekar of Lightworks, Lumenpulse provided the illumination for the urban sculpture, called Emptyful, in downtown Winnipeg. Standing 35 feet high and 31 feet wide, the stainless steel frame of a flask-like structure has been installed at the Millennium Library Plaza.

Funded by the Canadian government and the City, the $575,000 artwork represents the idea that something can be empty and full at the same time. “It was influenced by the phenomenon of weather and human endeavor,” Pechet says. “When you first visit Winnipeg, it can appear empty and open, set amidst the vastness of prairie and sky. But within, the city is full of creative energy.”

Lumenfacade RGB LED luminaires are embedded into a beam that transects the flask, lighting fog that emerges from above while a curtain of water cascades down. The enchanting lightshow comes to life at night, attracting hundreds of viewers to the plaza to see it in action. “It’s brought excitement into the city,” Pechet says.

During the winter months, the water and fog will be turned off but Emptyful will continue to display a color-changing light scheme. In its winter settings of oranges, tangerines, and golds, the lights will produce what Pechet calls “glowing embers to warm up the cool nights.”

 

 

“Lighting for Emptyful had to be slender, discreet, and powerful. We brought Lumenpulse into the process early and designed the beam with their fixtures in mind. They were perfect for the project." Bill Pechet

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Artist: Bill Pechet

ARCHIPELAGO PAVILION

Designed and built in collaboration between Chalmers University of Technology and Röhsska Museum of Design in Copenhagen, the Archipelago Pavilion is a network of seating structures that inhabits the cortyard in front of the Museum.

The structure provides shaded seating inside and creates shaded spaces around it to place existing chairs and tables. The structure was built on site by 33 architecture students.

The pavilion was parametrically designed in Grasshopper and Rhino and built from 2 mm thick laser-cut steel sheets.

Exactly 133 pieces of steel were joint together with 1535 joints with a total of 3640 bolts holding it together.

Inside the pavilion visitors can lie comfortably on the surface, thanks to the steel’s possibility to stay cool when shaded.

The intricate web of spaces resembles clusters of small islands in an archipelago. The perforation on the roof spreads out an organic pattern resembling the one you would see from a tree in the forest.

The Archipelago Pavilion was initially created for the purpose of the course, as an exploration of translating computer generated design into built architectural objects through digital fabrication.

After the summer the pavilion will be moved to the Chalmers University of Technology where it will stay during the autumn. After that, the Archipelago Pavilion will be for sale.

source: evolo

OVO BY ODEAUBOIS

A sensory experience to live, in the heart of a luminous egg, symbol of birth, unity and perfection. 

An installation by ACT lighting design (lighting & scenography) and Odeaubois (sculpture) at DITAN PARK Beijing.

The purpose of OVO is to offer an art object, global and multi-sensory in scope, to which a dimension of a luminous event is added, provided by the plays of light and the visual and acoustic animations.

The visitor is invited to walk on the water to reach the interior, as if to vanish into a metaphysical mist.

The watery surface reflects the egg-like structure, the lighting, and also the silhouettes of the visitors which bring the surface to life by their passage.

Seen from inside, the sense of intensity, of being drawn towards the sky, underlines the dynamism conveyed by the forms of the structure.

The framing features a lamellar lattice secured with semicircular lozenges to distribute the tensile forces and allow the use of a poplar wood, a lighter material.

Scenographer marcos vinals was introduced into the project to generate a dynamic setting which culminates with an open ceiling plane to view the sky.

THE SEQUENCE BY ARNE QUINZE

The immediate environment of the Flemish Parliament undergoes a restyling. As of 13 November 2008 a giant wooden installation, lasting for at least 5 years, covers the Leuvenseweg connecting the Flemish Parliament with the House of Flemish Representatives. 

Belgian artist Arne Quinze signs for this unique piece of art. Quinze: “THE SEQUENCE bridges the communication gap between people and generates movement in the city. I want to reconnect people and let them interact with each other like they did in the past on squares. At least people talked to each other then.” Therefore concrete elements serve as the basis for the sculpture.

It gives people a moment to reset their minds and think about what’s going on in those two buildings. The physical connection between neighbors, the Flemish Parliament and the House of Flemish Representatives reflects the possible connection between all neighbors in Brussels. Cross-culture connections, a connection with Europe, its diversity and entity.

Arne Quinze uses concrete and wood for this installation. “Working with natural materials gives the installation a very pure and human aspect. I always work in a sustainable way. This is one of the most important things for me. All used wood has the EFC-label, a European standard. For every tree cut, there will be planted a new one. All wood is 100% recyclable into new fixtures, and is going to be completely reused after the deconstruction.

WATERTOWER BY TOM FRUIN STUDIO

For the US premiere of his internationally recognized Icon series, Tom Fruin has created a monumental water tower sculpture in colorful salvaged plexiglas and steel. Watertower is mounted high upon a water tower platform becoming part of the DUMBO, Brooklyn skyline, situated on the rooftop of 20 Jay Street the sculpture is viewable from the parks and streets of Dumbo, the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, FDR Drive and Lower Manhattan

This project is the fourth work in the plexiglas and steel patchwork Icon series which features scavenged, reclaimed, and recycled materials constructed into sculptural tributes to architectural icons around the world, from the obelisco of Buenos Aires, to the kolonihavehuse of Copenhagen.

 

Fruin, who often works with reclaimed and discarded materials, has composed Watertower from roughly one thousand scraps of plexiglas. It includes such details as interior and exterior access ladders and an operable roof hatch.

Illuminated by the sun during the day and by Ardunio-controlled light sequences designed by Ryan Holsopple at night, this beacon of light is a tribute to the iconic New York water tower and a symbol of the vibrancy of Brooklyn. 

Tom Fruin (b. 1974) works in Brooklyn, NY. His work is a part of many international museums and collections, most notably The Hanck Collection at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Germany; the Richard J. Massey Foundation for Arts and Sciences in New York, NY; and the Buenos Aires Design Center (Centro Metropolitano de Diseño) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fruin’s most recent contribution to public art in New York City is the 50 foot tall neon sculpture HOTEL on the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

STREET ARCHITECTURE BY MEGX

 

German street artist MegX spent four weeks transforming a once mundane traffic hot spot into a lively, lurid, lego land. Using only a Genie and a dream, MegX, under the commission of the local municipality, painted the entire ole Wuppertal Bridge, originally used a train line overpass, in lego-likeness hoping to add some playful color to the commute of cyclists and motorists alike.

The german commuters have been enjoying their super sized lego’s since October and it is to be assumed that this street artist has made a permanent mark on the new Wuppertal Bridge. As one can see, the piece is very simple in nature, but what the structure lacks in complexity it makes up for in pristine execution and flawless design.

The piece comes on the heels of similar lego inspired works from Lego animals at the Bronx Zoo to the first Lego Green House, but the effort is none the less appreciated; The world is getting a big ole dose of “legos on steroids,” and we definitely want more!

Location: Wuppertal, Germany

Artist: MegX