kengo kuma presents a giant spiralling air-purifying sculpture with the ability to absorb the emissions of 90,000 cars per year. the sculpture — titled ‘breath/ing’ — comprises 120 hand-folded panels and is a towering 6 meters tall.
‘licht, mehr licht!’ by french visual artist guillaume marmin
light has always fascinated scientists, philosophers, religious thinkers and artists. how does it affect our emotions and sensations? ‘licht, mehr licht!’ or ‘light, more light!’ are the last words spoken by goethe, a novelist who was also fascinated by the optical sciences. this mysterious incident is reminiscent of near death experiences — tunnels of light, also known as tunnels of death. guillaume marmin drew inspiration from this theme to create an immersive installation that explores the links between light, sound and space.
Sacromonte Landscape Hotel — designed by local firm MAPA Architects
Visitors to Uruguay’s Maldonado region can soon stay in a stunning new hotel, which is tucked into 250 acres of gorgeous natural landscape. The Sacromonte Landscape Hotel — designed by local firm MAPA Architects — is a green-roofed mountain retreat that uses mirrored exteriors to strategically blend into its surroundings. The sustainable hotel complex, which is comprised of 13 individual cabins, a winery and a farm-to-table restaurant, was completely prefabricated off site to reduce the project’s footprint.
Vertical Village, Paris by Sou Fujimoto, Nicolas Laisné, and Dimitri Roussel
a team comprising sou fujimoto, nicolas laisné, and dimitri roussel has been chosen to develop plans for a ‘vertical village’ in paris. the building contains 17,000 square meters of housing — including 5,000 square meters of social housing — and of 5,300 square meters of office space. the project will also contain a food-court, a daycare center, a family office, community centers, a rooftop bar, and a sports hub comprising climbing, soccer, and paddel facilities.
Sunrise installation by Vincent Leroy
vincent leroy reflects on our relationship with speed, distance and reality with ‘sunrise’, a slowly-rotating, glowing installation made of overlapping transparent surfaces. creating an enigmatic and fascinating blur, the paris-based artist reinterpreted the colors of the sun by layering the surfaces in an infinite amount of orange gradients.
OMA draws on the “fundamentals of geometry” for XY180 lights
This is the first time that OMA has designed a lighting product with a very strong and specific identity,” says Laparelli, a partner at the Rotterdam-based architecture firm led by Rem Koolhaas.
“It is based on a fascination for very essential geometries — probably the fundamentals of geometry — a point, a line and a surface.”
‘hidden senses’ exhibition creates a sensorial experience
during milan design week 2018, see, hear and feel hidden senses that inform your everyday life. the sony ‘hidden senses’ exhibition creates a sensorial experience where the relation between technology and human behavior is explored to envision an enriched lifestyle for a new tomorrow. visitors will experience the incredible opportunities advancements offer but seamlessly, as the technology blends into a highly focused and attuned contextual space, full of familiar objects.
the desertification of the world by al mefer
neuroscientist and photographer al mefer continues his story about the questionable future of humanity — first, he showed how people would search for refuges on other planets, then how aliens would refuse to host humans, and now the artist reveals the reason — the desertification of the world. titled ‘deserts of the future: documenting desertification on earth and beyond’, the series of photographs explores the consequences of human overexploitation and climate change, which leads to land degradation and the loss of its vegetation and wildlife.
Light Leaks by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan
Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan filled a darkened room with fifty disco balls and created colored and timed lighting sequences to cast mesmerizing reflections that surround visitors. However, rather than simply relying on scattershot reflections, McDonald and Jongejan used hundreds of structured light scans to capture the volumetric position of every pixel being projected by each of the three projectors. The pair then used SketchUp to predict the reflected pixel positions.
You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences at North Carolina Museum of Art
You Are Here features immersive art installations by 15 contemporary artists, including large-scale light works, sound installations, video works, mixed-media room-size environments, and site-specific projects. Some are delightfully low-tech, transforming ordinary materials into awe-inspiring visuals, while others make use of experimental new media, fusing art and technology in interactive works that change in response to the viewer. The artists in this exhibition employ a diversity of media to create intriguing experiences that engage the senses, activate the imagination, and provide connections between the viewer and the work of art.
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