Video: MAXXI - architectural installation in place of conventional lanterns
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It would seem that street lamps are needed for one, very practical purpose, which does not allow any HO - in order to illuminate the street at night. But in Rome in the courtyard of the museum MAXXI quite unusual appeared the other day Street lightsthat turned the courtyard of this institution into something like tulip garden.
I must say that the creator of the MAXXI museum building was one of the most famous modern architects - Zaha Hadid, known to the readers of our site for an iceberg house in the Scottish city of Glasgow. But she also allowed much younger architects and artists, her students, participants in the MoMA PS1 curriculum to make a name on this. So they created this unusual architectural installation.
As a basis for their work, they took the most ordinary street lamps and benches installed in the courtyard of the Roman MAXXI museum. But with the help of their imagination, they turned these lanterns into something very reminiscent of tulips or some other scarlet flowers.
The benches, on all sides, were closely fenced with grass and illuminated. So we got mound benches that glow yellow in the dark.
The main goal of this architectural installation was to create a light and art space in the courtyard of the MAXXI museum, where during the summer and autumn of 2011 a variety of outdoor events will take place: from exhibitions to concerts.
And on ordinary evenings it will be pleasant to sit here, admire the play of multi-colored light and shadows. A very beautiful, romantic place.
And with the end of the street season, on October 16, 2011, this installation in the courtyard of the Roman MAXXI museum will be dismantled, and the lanterns there will again become lanterns. But you should not be very sad about this. After all, parts of this architectural installation will move from the closed courtyard of the museum to the streets of Rome, where all residents and guests of the Eternal City, without exception, can admire them, and not only those who bother to come to the MAXXI Museum.
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