Diagram of light vector travel in installation space. Drawn in Rhinoceros and Illustrator.
Luminous Multiplicities | Architectural Installation
This conceptual project consists of an architectural space where light and shadow are constantly and seamlessly shifting into each other, where a multiplicity of the two phenomena makes it difficult to comprehend where one ends and the other begins. This space, and the lighting condition within, is meant to explore the inescapable duality of light and shadow; demonstrating their identity as two ends of a single, shifting gradient rather than two separate but related concepts.
Exploded axonometric of installation space, calling out (from left): exterior wall with light sources, interior wall with excised figure-ground pattern, and spatial partition / projection display
This was accomplished using three main interventions into the space: a series of point lights distributed evenly around the perimeter of the room, a layer of translucent material (cut with a repetitive figure-ground pattern) which describes a smaller, interior perimeter of space, and a number of smaller translucent screens upon which the repetitive (and now distorted) figures from the previous layer are now projected. Even before the space becomes inhabited, these projections create a complex, interweaving lighting and shadow condition on the screens and floors, but upon habitation this condition becomes dynamic, light and shadow moving into and out of each other to create a mesmerizing, even disorienting architecture of illumination.
1/4” = 1’-0” scale model overhead view
Elevation of interior wall
