Lobby Sculpture, Hong Kong, China / Nikolas Weinstein Studios

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擅长于玻璃艺术创作的Nikolas Weinstein Studios在给gooood分享滚滚玻璃浪/Billowing glass之后，这次给大家分享是诗意，飘渺且张力无限的“漫步云端”。

香港沙田万怡酒店的中心大厅安置了一件十分独特的艺术雕塑。这件蜿蜒翻卷的玻璃雕塑与大厅中的旋转楼梯两相应和，向人们展示这个拥有539间客房的大酒店是多么与
众不同。

雕塑首先低下来，与客人并肩，引导客人经过旋转楼梯上到二层的舞厅，接着雕塑冲向高空，宛如云带似得为客人营造出曼妙的漫步感。

造型动感流转的雕塑由58775个小柔性硅硼玻璃组成，长达200英尺，极为巧妙的利用了大厅窄而高的空间，同时又和其它要素形成充满张力的关系。玻璃就像折纸般灵活，整体泛着乳白色的材料也是绝佳的光线捕捉器和反射器。动感与光影让人过目难忘。

Lobby Sculpture at Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong Sha Tin Completed in the fall of 2013, this enormous but elegant glass artwork was created to unify a large space and provide a unique and immersive guest experience.Designed to integrate with the architecture rather than just exist within it, the sculpture is nearly 200 feet long. Arching overhead as guests enter the hotel, the piece wraps around and weaves between the columns. Engaging the guest on a more personal scale, the sculpture almost walks alongside them, guiding them up the spiral stair to the second floor and the ballroom. The artist takes advantage of the lobby-length balcony as an opportunity for guests to “walk amongst the clouds”—to be up and almost inside the sculpture.

The design of the sculpture addresses the challenge of a main lobby too narrow and tall to provide the grandeur of a central space by creating an aesthetic focus that permeates the entire room; it feels like one experience, whether upstairs or down. The sculpture further integrates with the architecture by echoing the elliptical patterns expressed throughout the lobby. The arcs of the building’s façade, curved stair, and floors’ stonework are amplified in the organic loops of the sculpture, a contrast to the controlled geometry of the architecture.

The sculpture extends the artist’s interest in creating glass that acts like fabric or origami—flexible systems that confound one’s expectations of a brittle material. The entire sculpture was collapsed or “folded-up” and shipped flat. On site, a team of ten unfurled and sculpted the material over the course of a month. The more than 58,700 individual glass tubes that make up the sculpture were custom designed to maximize the play of light. Their minute prismatic lines catch and refract ambient light, creating an opalescent surface with subtle and intermittent spectrums of color.

Dimensions & Facts
• The sculpture is 8.8 W x 53.6 L x 8.4 H
• The sculpture has 58,755 individual glass tubes.
• Laid end-to-end, the total length of glass tubes in the sculpture is 11.75 kilometers.
• 9.24 kilometers of fine wire cable were used to weave the sculpture together.

 

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