Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will exhibit a glass window made of 500 crystal prisms at MUSEUM. beyond museum in Seoul this May.
Called Rainbow Church, the eight metre-high installation will create rainbows within the space as the light is refracted.
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The information below is from Tokujin Yoshioka:
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Rainbow Church
The idea of this architecture project “Rainbow Church” dates back to when I was in early 20s.
When I was in France for a business trip, I went to Vence, a commune located near Nice. There, I visited the Chapelle du Rosaire, which Henri Matisse, a French painter, created in his last years. I was engrossed in the beauty of the light that the chapel created.
I experienced a space filled with the light of Matisse: Being bathed in the sunlight of the Provence, the stained glass with Matisse’s vibrant colors suffused the room with full of colors. Since then, I had been dreaming of designing an architecture where people can feel the light with all senses.
This dreaming architecture project will be realized as a concept plan at the exhibition held at MUSEUM. beyondmuseum in Seoul from May, 2010. The exhibition is planned to last until the end of June. A 8-meter-high stained glass made with approximately 500 crystal prisms will be filling the space with rainbow colors as the light shines on it.
shyaaaaaa…..
Like in Dan Simmon’s hyperion
Thats really different
Awsome!!!!!!!!! Just fantastic!
Blinding! In a nice way hopefully..
if i came up with this idea, no one would even pay any attention to it.
ok, prisms…like nobody’s used them before.
ys ys …light of Matisse !! full of light
nice one!! really like seeing the sun being properly represented inside a church,, as it is actually one of the most important outside `forces` to our selves and our planet!
I love this project. Please, Dezeen, doesn´t forget to show this project to us when becomes real.
wow, I think GODs love this sexy space.
I don’t like everything Yoshioka does, but I think this is on the good side. Reminds me of that installation he did for a car maker.
genius … brilliant …………………… GREAT
Very witty, futuristic & a clever idea, BRAVO!
François Beydoun
This is beautiful.
Marvelous VIBGYORS spectrums
The real color space capture lively instead in a dialogue box