United Visual Artists fills A/D/O courtyard with rotating mirrors for Spirit of the City installation
British studio United Visual Artists has installed a set of gold-mirrored columns in a courtyard in Brooklyn, which spin around to reflect light patterns, visitors, and the surrounding brick walls.
Unveiled yesterday to coincide with this year's NYCxDesign festival, United Visual Artists (UVA)'s Spirit of the City installation is set in creative venue A/D/O's open-air area.
Visitors are invited to walk between a series of nine-foot-high (2.74-metre) mirrored columns that rotate to offer changing reflections and refractions. Moving through the installation is intended to be both mesmerising and disorientating ? an experience that UVA likens to exploring Manhattan's built environment of super-tall glass skyscrapers.
"We wanted to do an installation inspired by New York City," UVA designer Maximo Recio told Dezeen. "It's about the way that you navigate urban environments, and how in the city there is loads of information and you can feel overwhelmed in a way but also very empowered, familiar and included."
"When you are walking around the installation there is a feeling of disorientation in a way," he added.
But while the glass structures tower over streets and smaller industrial buildings, UVA's design is intended to invert this spacial relationship. The mirrored columns are enclosed by the brickwork walls of A/D/O's converted industrial building in the Greenpoint neighbourhood.
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