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Lebbeus Woods 利布斯．伍兹
Sketch models, Light Pavilion (2007–2012), Chengdu, China 中國成都時光閣（2007–2012年）草模
2008–2010
These six sketch models develop the concept of the Light Pavilion, the only permanent built project by the American architect and theorist Lebbeus Woods. Commissioned by Steven Holl, the pavilion is a four-storey-high, three-dimensional installation set within the facade of one of Holl’s Raffles City towers in Chengdu, China. It was realised in 2012, days before Woods’s death, with the collaboration of the architect Christoph Kumpusch.
The cardboard models show varying arrangements of diagonal, bent columns tangled within a cube, abstractions of the pavilion’s volatile form. As built, these columns are semi-transparent and glow in a shifting array of colours at night; mirrors line the cube, intensifying the jagged effect of the columns’ sharp angles. Staircases and glass platforms are suspended within this indeterminate space, allowing visitors to inhabit the pavilion but fracturing their perspectives even further. From the ground, the installation reads as a dynamic deterioration of the host building’s gridded structure.
Most commonly expressed on paper, Woods’s experimental visions expand architecture’s ability to shape original, multiple narratives within the city. The Light Pavilion materialises his career-long pursuit of unexpected and destabilising spatial experience.
The cardboard models show varying arrangements of diagonal, bent columns tangled within a cube, abstractions of the pavilion’s volatile form. As built, these columns are semi-transparent and glow in a shifting array of colours at night; mirrors line the cube, intensifying the jagged effect of the columns’ sharp angles. Staircases and glass platforms are suspended within this indeterminate space, allowing visitors to inhabit the pavilion but fracturing their perspectives even further. From the ground, the installation reads as a dynamic deterioration of the host building’s gridded structure.
Most commonly expressed on paper, Woods’s experimental visions expand architecture’s ability to shape original, multiple narratives within the city. The Light Pavilion materialises his career-long pursuit of unexpected and destabilising spatial experience.
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