Friday, October 8, 2010
Art Brooklyn Architects SO-IL Go Big in China
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:46 AM
SO-IL's reflective orb is made up of strikingly light and simple materials, which allow light and wind to pass through, giving the structure a shimmering sense of movement. 56 flexible steel poles join a ring on the ground and another that creates the circumference of the roof, bending outwards to give the walls their pod-like curve. The skin of the structure is made up of thousands of panels of tinted mirrors, which are only attached at their tops, which allows them to shake, shimmer and wave in the wind, and admit light without requiring windows in the traditional sense. And since the Flockr is so easy to take apart and move, maybe we'll even see it in Brooklyn one day... In the meantime, watch all its flickery, shinny action in the video below.
(Dezeen)
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