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dawn arises, a moving wind of light casalgrande padana, reggio emilia, october second twothounsandten inauguration of architect kengo kuma’s landscape artwork with light by mario nanni the entrance of a company becomes a stage design thanks to the landscape artwork by architect kengo kuma and light designed by mario nanni. an urban sculpture, a cloud of ceramic slabs of stoneware, that grows from the ground connoting an architecture in the horizon: a manufactured wall as a natural element amongst authentic natural elements, man’s work of art in the environment that hosts it. a landmark: a 6 meter high wall, 45 meters long, in the middle of a 60m diameter roundabout, that contains an 800m2 lake and 2000m2 of carrara’s marble. a matter yet rarefied architectural work, standing in front of casalgrande padana’s plant. assembling 1052 pure white ceramic slabs, in nine different typologies and dimensions closely cooperating with the steel skeleton, the japanese architect wanted to revisit the conventional idea of ceramic as mere finishing, granting it new structural and figurative potentialities in 3d space. from plain coating to structure, sheets of ceramic turned into a wall: not a partition mark, not a limit, but a glimmer, a better vision cone, a sequence of frames. significance has been given to the landscape that hosts us, letting it involve us in the scenes that give life to it: this artwork is a vista towards the surroundings, a viewfinder, an instrument for watching the season pass, with the rotation of colours, lights and atmospheres. natural light appears to be a real project element in this first work in italy by architect kuma; for this reason he also decided to give importance to night light, that is therefore thought, designed, felt as an element essential for the final result. kengo kuma draws the project, mario nanni translates the light concept. a light of wind comes up: a significant combination of ripple movements, white shades that brush the work’s volume like a tide on the water’s edge, like wind on foliage. natural element and man’s talent carry on in symbiosis for this work. the wall gains strength and shape. it becomes a structure, a monolith: strong and solid, delicate and rarefied at the same time, dreamlike and symbolic, full of significance. a cloud. the light show is actually inspired by clouds moved by wind, clouds that allow sunrays to pass through them with a variety of white tones: from yellow to light blue, reaching pure white
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