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.
February 12th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
shyaaaaaa…..
February 12th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Like in Dan Simmon’s hyperion
February 12th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Thats really different
February 12th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Awsome!!!!!!!!! Just fantastic!
February 12th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Blinding! In a nice way hopefully..
February 12th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
if i came up with this idea, no one would even pay any attention to it.
ok, prisms…like nobody’s used them before.
February 12th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
ys ys …light of Matisse !! full of light
February 12th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
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!
February 13th, 2010 at 2:11 am
I love this project. Please, Dezeen, doesn´t forget to show this project to us when becomes real.
February 13th, 2010 at 5:14 am
wow, I think GODs love this sexy space.
February 13th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
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.
February 14th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
genius … brilliant …………………… GREAT
February 15th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Very witty, futuristic & a clever idea, BRAVO!
François Beydoun
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:17 pm
This is beautiful.
May 16th, 2010 at 6:24 am
Marvelous VIBGYORS spectrums
The real color space capture lively instead in a dialogue box