Valencia-based design practice Clap Studio has created The Sea, a temporary modular installation for a television studio that was informed by the ocean and made from gridded mesh boxes and illuminated spheres.
Located in the Veles e Vents building in Valencia that was designed by David Chipperfield, The Sea installation was built as part of the 2022 World Design Capital programme with the support of the city council of Valencia as well as other governing bodies.
The installation will be used as a meeting point and turned into a television studio once a month, in which to film content as part of World Design Capital events.
Top: the installation was created as part of World Design Captial Valencia. Above: the studio used modular gridded boxes for its design The David Chipperfield-designed building that the installation sits in informed its design from the beginning.
"The inspiration came the first day we visited the space and the building 'Veles e Vents'," Clap Studio founder Angela Montagud told Dezeen.
"The building 'Veles e Vents' is located in 'La Marina de Valencia', the historic dock of the city. It is physically and visually connected to the sea. We thought about the user's experience, the journey they make to get to the space."
The gridded mesh was layered to create variating opacities
Informed by the shape of waves and the nearby Mediterranean Sea, the installation took shape as a collection of gridded modular mesh boxes.
Clap Studio used three m...