21 posts tagged “light”
Created by Pablo Valbuena:
This project is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation.
For this purpose two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality. On the one hand the physical layer, which controls the real space and shapes the volumetric base that serves as support for the next level. The second level is a virtual projected layer that allows controlling the transformation and sequentiality of space-time.
The blending of both levels gives the impression of physical geometry suitable of being transformed. The orverlapping produces a three-dimensional space augmented by a transformable layer suitable to be controlled, resulting in the capacity through the installation of altering multiple dimensions of space-time.
These ideas come to life in an abstract and geometric envelope, enhanced with synesthetic audio elements and establishing a dialogue with the observer.
The Eden Project is a well-known education center that encourages people to learn how to
look after nature in a time of radical change. They offer educational programs,
exhibits, events and workshops and especially focus on educating children and
encouraging them to be part of nature.
Naturally, the Field of Light is best viewed at night after the sun has set, when the lights begin to glow and the starry sky appears to be reflected on the ground. The beautiful installation will be on display through the Winter and into Spring 2009. As Munro remarks, Field of Light, like a giant surreal camp-site banana, is an alien installation in the midst of nature. And like dry desert seeds lying in wait for the rain, the sculptures fiber optic stems lie dormant until darkness falls, and then under a blazing blanket of stars they flower with gentle rhythms of light. Field of Light is about the desert as much as the roadside campsites.
via Inhabitat
Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice. The time-based nature of the poem–and the visitor’s time-based encounters with it–allow viewers to have different experiences either seeing a stanza of the poem or getting the whole poem. All of these possible experiences are equally valuable and have meanings unique to the individual.
This technique has the potential for producing particular effects and meanings within an architectural environment. Without the use of a source of power other than the sun, this project uses light and shadow to push the boundaries of communication and experiential delight.
I posted about this installation some time ago, but the videos are something else. Thanks to rebecam at Space Collective for the reminder. Videos courtesy of RandomEtc and farnishk.
"Lightweeds are living digital organisms. They grow indoors but depend on sunshine, rainfall and wind measured in the outside world through sensors placed on the outer walls of the building (these lightweeds are responding to information captured by sensors just outside the Museum.) As human traffic-- yes, you-- goes by, they bend, lose their seeds, and pollinate other walls throughout the space in a constantly evolving wallpaper that reflcts the character of the space and its use." | via looktouch on flickr | http://flickr.com/photos/looktouch/
Dutch design company Studiomeiboom gives a new meaning to book light. Their white plexiglass "book" lamp, cleverly shaped like a heavy tome, is named The Enlightenment in honor of the intellectual movement of the 18th century.
If you’d like to lighten your room (and lighten your wallet as well), here is the: Link - via Aqueos | hat tip neatorama
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