Lighttube by Marco Hemmerling
Last weekend, the installation “Lighttube” by German architect Marco Hemmerling was introduced at the 9th annual festival Arbres et Lumières in Geneva, Switzerland.
Full description after the photos….
Photos by Michel Bobilier
Lighttube by Marco Hemmerling
The concept for the illumination at Square Pierre Fatio in the city center is based on two major aspects of spatial perception. In first place the installation amplifies the relation between the central column and the surrounding trees. By reinforcing the correlation of the trees with the centre of the square, the light membrane structure focuses on the connection of the vertical elements of the site. The second aspect of the design aims to an added value, which is brought in with the new element of the lighttube. Even though being a connector, the lighttube manages to establish its own quality, which formally derives from the evolutionary principle of growth. The abstract idea of ramification is transformed into an integral shape that puts the trees as well as the column and the space in between in a new light. The light concept incorporates a constant change of color for the illuminated trees and the membrane structure to support the idea of evolutionary transformation and generates at the same time an ever-changing perception of the scenery. Next to other installations, lighttube will be exposed in Geneva until January 3rd.
Visit Marco Hemmerling’s website – here.
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Isy on 04 Dec 2009 at 3:13 am #
It’s definitely not the best piece of this year to me… but Arbres et Lumières is always fun, at least they make something in this unmodern and way too traditional city…
I loved the kitschy balls Lionel Bessière did, you can really see them even from the car and they’re so impossibly kitsch that they work out… kind of a Tim Walker atmosphere !
Tere on 05 Dec 2009 at 9:20 am #
It looks like ‘x marks the spot’ on a pirate’s map. Haha. Really fun.
geokin on 05 Dec 2009 at 11:21 am #
SOME design engineres and architechs will love it.I myself as an art enthusiast have to say I do admire it. Surely it took a lot of work and money to make it. Wish they could get somethig like it in NY were the towers used to be.