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light frames
materials & applications silverlake, los angeles |
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The premise of space is light. The effect and experience of the view from the street begins with the modified gate [housing both frames and super graphic white Plexiglas panels, the composition announces itself to passers-by. Upon entry one is immediately engulfed. The front figure of the chain link tower hold the urban edge while sitting delicately on the ground. The two nested figures provide the double density moiré effect of the superimposed chain links. Painted violet, their presence plays with the light to evaporate, leaving the densities of the shadow field below. The first figure is not about the form or the object but the shadow of its presence. As one ascends the existing steps and slides past the fountain, the plastic chapel reaches out its entry to beckon you in. Created of an array of vacuum-form plastic funnels of white plastic, their reflective surfaces and funnel shape direct and refract light. Its figure evolves from a conical entry into a bent barrel vault connecting an apsidal end and a chimney vaulted dome, the forms are figural yet primal. The architectural elements, clad in the new parametrically controlled vacuum formed polycarbonate, reinterpret the shape while providing referential glimpses to historical architectural forms. The compositions of funneled, reflected, and refracted light produce a light room that transitions through the day, and at night inverts the relationship to make the entire structure a glowing projective lantern. Two rubber encased polyurethane benches identify places of repose. One sits in the chain link frame space, while the other engages the plastic chapel. |
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