A Fluttering Exterior Responds to the Elements in a Kinetic, Open-Air Cabin by NEON



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In the park encompassing Louvre-Lens, which opened in 2012 on a 49-acre former mining website about 125 miles north of Paris, a cabin-shaped installation has fluttered onto the grounds. The kinetic structure built by Margate, U.K.-based studio NEON, who explain it as an “animal-like” function that responds to pure forces in its natural environment, has feather-like polycarbonate shingles that respond to wind or precipitation to crank out motion. “Shiver Dwelling V2″—variation one particular was modeled immediately after a conventional mökki in Finland—is an exploration into the way that architecture can support to construct a closer relationship in between its inhabitants and its environment.

“Something that we can do with our perform is make individuals be additional present in the instant,” claims NEON artist Viliina Koivisto, who along with director Mark Nixon, established NEON on the premise that architecture, artwork, and layout are not ivory towers and alternatively intersect with a person yet another in distinctive ways. “Our jobs are generally eye-catching, daring, and emotive—and fairly fantastical,” Nixon describes.

You can see much more of the studio’s do the job on its web-site and on Instagram.

 

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#kinetic
#kinetic sculpture
#NEON Studio
#sculpture

 

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