River Cloud Installation artistique en plein air by Shang Cai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award d'Or in Design Paysager Competition Category.
OrDesign Paysager· 2023
River Cloud Installation artistique en plein air
by Shang Cai
Client: Shougang Real Estate
A' Design Award d'Or Winner in Design Paysager Category
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The Design
About River Cloud Installation artistique en plein air
River Cloud est une vaste installation artistique extérieure conçue pour un site paysager à Yubei, Chongqing, en Chine. D'une hauteur de 8 mètres et d'une largeur de 30 mètres, elle s'élève sur une toiture au sommet d'une falaise faisant face à une rivière. Plus de 50 000 cadres métalliques polygonaux de différentes dimensions sont assemblés pour former une silhouette de nuage aux courbes fluides. Les ouvertures ménagées dans la surface offrent des percées visuelles sur la montagne et la rivière en contrebas. Un bassin peu profond et un dispositif de brumisation entourent l'œuvre. Des sources lumineuses à commande numérique confèrent à cette forme nuageuse des couleurs et des textures changeantes à la tombée de la nuit.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award d'Or
River Cloud Installation artistique en plein air est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or, une reconnaissance immensément prestigieuse décernée à des designs de premier ordre, merveilleux et remarquables. Les lauréats Or sont des créations extrêmement innovantes, visionnaires et d'un éclat glamour éblouissant, qui reflètent le génie, la sagesse et la maîtrise de leurs concepteurs. River Cloud Installation artistique en plein air est censé être une invention très louée, avant-gardiste et monumentale, qui apporte une valeur sans précédent. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or est un projet spectaculaire et respecté qui sert grandement l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. River Cloud Installation artistique en plein air crée de vifs sentiments de désir, éveille la passion, encourage la créativité et nous fascine.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- It is a large-scale outdoor design case of an art installation. It is 8 meters high, 30 meters wide and 6 meters deep, located on the roof at the top of the cliff facing the river.
It is demanding to express the image and connotation of the high-end real estate project named after "cloud". With lines, colors, and shapes, the designer creates a cloud form in line with the Oriental aesthetic. Through the interaction of clouds, water, and smoke in the environment, a beautiful space is created. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Specification: 8 meters high, 30 meters wide, and depth of meters
Surrounding: Pool/green area of 2,000 square meters - Tags
- Cloud, Spatial installation, Landscape, Lighting
- Production Technology
- More than 50,000 polygonal metal frames of different sizes are connected to each other to create a curved cloud shape. Through the holes in the clouds, one can see the opposite mountain view and the river view at the foot.
The designer arranges a thin pool and a smoke device in the environment of the cloud device, creating Oriental beauty and a sense of advance through the interaction of cloud, water and smoke. - Design Challenge
- Clouds have varied colors and shape characteristics, and it is very challenging to represent cloud symbols in architectural form.
As a long-term outdoor installation, the designer chose a large number of different sizes of stainless-steel frames to combine and used hard materials to express the curve characteristics of the clouds.
At the same time, through the use of a number of point-like numerical control light sources, the device at night presents a dynamic effect of light and shadow flow and a crystal clear overall image.
The whole device is simple in material, stable in structure, and easy to maintain. It is a successful attempt to express the cloud symbol. - Research
- 1. The cloud form that represented by the metal frame structure.
2. Numerical control lighting to create space device color, texture.
3. The interaction of cloud, water and smoke creates Oriental beauty and a sense of high class.
4. Enhanced commercial value with a space device. - Inspiration
- "Cloud" has special aesthetic value and symbolic significance in the East.
In eastern culture, "cloud" contains a spiritual realm of randomness, freedom, harmony, and detachment. And the pursuit of natural nature is regarded as a high spiritual realm.
With lines, colors, and shapes to create a cloud image that can be widely accepted and understood. Viewers perceive the spatial morphological meaning and thoughts of the ever-changing cloud symbols through form, color, and light under the context. - Project Duration
- Date of Design Start: 2022.07
Date of Completion: 2022.12
Address: Yubei, Chongqing, China - Operation Flow
- In this case, the designer used a variety of interactive relationships to create an ethereal, elegant, and Zen space environment.
The interaction between the sky and the thin water allows the cloud-shaped installation to merge with the sky and the surrounding greenery.
The interaction between the main device and the environmental smoke device makes the cloud-shaped device produce a floating dynamic.
The interaction between the NC light source and the ambient light allows the device to present different textures and color changes in different light environments. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Chong Qing Shen Sheng Space Aesthetics.
- Image Credits
- Alan Tan
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