Art Design
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Wink Space: An Immersive Kaleidoscopic Mirror Tunnel Inside a Shipping Container
For the 2013 KOBE Biennale, artists and designers were invited to create environments inside industrial shipping containers as part of the “Art in a Container International Competition.” Designers Masakazu Shirane and Saya Miyazaki created Wink Space, a modular installation made from mirrors that formed a giant kaleidoscopic tunnel. Not only was the piece a fun immersive environment, but it was also an experiment in building with zippers. “We wanted to create the world’s first zipper architecture. In other words, this polyhedron is completely connected by zippers. And in order to facilitate even more radical change some of the surfaces open and close like windows,” says Shirane.
Wink Space was a winner of the A’Design Award.
#architecture #installation #mirrors #zippers
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