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Walking on luminous air.
This year’s Adelaide Fringe Festival will be the setting for a unique and spectacular 1000 sq.m. walk-through sculpture by renowned UK-based artistic company, Architects of Air.
Called ‘Amococo’, the structure is the brainchild of UK artist and designer Alan Parkinson, who is the creative inspiration behind a series of plastic ‘luminariums’ developed by Architects of Air as architectural event spaces and modules.
The Adelaide Fringe’s Amococo is based on a floor plan generated by linking 86 ‘triaxial’ or three-sided domes, with each dome having its own coloured window and separate niches where visitors can sit and relax.
According to Parkinson, his luminariums are based on the shapes and principles of cathedral and mosque architecture, along with more contemporary influences like Buckminster Fuller and Frel Otto.
‘I take an engineering approach – drawing on conventional techniques of sheet metal design allied with an understanding of how flexible materials deform under tension’ explains Parkinson.
‘Each luminarium is a one-off.’
Amococo is constructed of just three colours of plastic, but with clever use of natural lighting, the result is a mesmerising, glowing combination of countless hues of colour that transports visitors into another dimension.
The structure takes just three hours to erect, and can be inflated within thirty minutes using the power equivalent of just two domestic electric kettles.
You can experience the wonder of the Amococo luminarium at the Adelaide Fringe Festival from 19th February until 14th March.
Visit www.tix.adelaidefringe.com.au for more details.
(Images courtesy of www.architects-of-air.com )
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Called ‘Amococo’, the structure is the brainchild of UK artist and designer Alan Parkinson, who is the creative inspiration behind a series of plastic ‘luminariums’ developed by Architects of Air as architectural event spaces and modules.
The Adelaide Fringe’s Amococo is based on a floor plan generated by linking 86 ‘triaxial’ or three-sided domes, with each dome having its own coloured window and separate niches where visitors can sit and relax.
According to Parkinson, his luminariums are based on the shapes and principles of cathedral and mosque architecture, along with more contemporary influences like Buckminster Fuller and Frel Otto.
‘I take an engineering approach – drawing on conventional techniques of sheet metal design allied with an understanding of how flexible materials deform under tension’ explains Parkinson.
‘Each luminarium is a one-off.’
Amococo is constructed of just three colours of plastic, but with clever use of natural lighting, the result is a mesmerising, glowing combination of countless hues of colour that transports visitors into another dimension.
The structure takes just three hours to erect, and can be inflated within thirty minutes using the power equivalent of just two domestic electric kettles.
You can experience the wonder of the Amococo luminarium at the Adelaide Fringe Festival from 19th February until 14th March.
Visit www.tix.adelaidefringe.com.au for more details.
(Images courtesy of www.architects-of-air.com )
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