Interactive installations built on Toronto beach for city's annual Winter Stations
A large wind chime and a bouncy castle linked to a smartphone app are among the temporary Winter Stations structures that have been built on Toronto's lakefront, to encourage visitors to play outside in the freezing winter.
Three studios and students from Canadian design school Centennial College created the four temporary structures for Toronto's annual design competition called Winter Stations.
Mirage by Cristina Vega and Pablo Losa Fontangordo was influenced by the sunshine
Built on Woodbine Beach, to the east of Downtown Toronto, the proposals are designed to respond to the theme Beyond the Five Senses.
"We wanted this year's theme to look beyond the five senses to bring interactive art to the water's edge," said Winter Stations co-founder, Roland Rom Colthoff of local studio RAW Design. "Winter Stations has always been about bringing joy, warmth and conversation to the long, cold Canadian winter landscape."
Charlie Sutherland created a scalable installation, Kaleidoscope of the Senses
Among the designs is an orange-and-yellow mesh Mirage created by Spanish artists Cristina Vega and Pablo Losa Fontangordo. The see-through structure was influenced by the sunlight on the south-facing lakefront.
"Mirage has been designed to react to the movements of the sun and the people," the team said.
"Depending on where the visitors are positioned, they will see either a red transparent sun setting or a light and bright rising sun laying on the horiz...
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