New York-based architecture firm, Leong Leong, created an installation inspired by "the experience of moving through landscapes in a Ford Edge," for the third annual Sight Unseen OFFSITE exhibition as a part of the citywide NYCxDESIGN festival.  

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New York-based architecture firm, Leong Leong, created an installation inspired by "the experience of moving through landscapes in a Ford Edge," for the third annual Sight Unseen OFFSITE exhibition as a part of the citywide NYCxDESIGN festival.  Titled TOPO, the installation was a scaleless environment composed of more than one thousand foam rollers. Collectively, they form a landscape ?that is both an intimate sanctuary and an expansive horizon.? The installation was situated in a room of mirrors, giving the effect that it extends indefinitely.
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"TOPO explores the experience of driving and the interior of a car as seamlessly merging into the environment, dissolving distinctions interior/exterior, open/closed and figure/field," Leong Leong told ArchDaily in an email.

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Designed in collaboration with ARUP, the exhibition also transforms the acoustic depth of the space through acoustic actuators that are scattered throughout the design, acting as an "interactive sound bath which creates a constantly changing field of sound," according to Leong. "The mood of the space can transform radically beca...