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Do We Dream Under the Same Sky

Nikolaus Hirsch, Michel Muller with Rirkrit Tiravanija
Do We Dream Under the Same Sky
Nikolaus Hirsch, Michel Muller and artist Rirkrit Tiravanija develop a new building component for their for a future workshop and artist residency building at The Land (Chiangmai, Thailand). The first component of the building, a structural system consisting of a bamboo-steel roof and flexible columns, was realized on the occasion of Art Basel in 2015, the second element, a hanging facade structure was constructed for the Garden Triennale in Aarhus (Denmark, 2017). The third building component, integrating at once both a protective facade material and an energy producing device, was developed for the Biennale in Seoul: a textile facade that produces electricity and emits light, using advanced organic photovoltaics (OPV) and organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology. The shingle-like system includes 1,250 OPV and 403 OLED modules (each 155 x 175 mm), suspended from a grid of bamboo tubes. The energy is produced during the day and emitted during night, highlighting the sentence “Do We Dream Under the Same Sky.” The title refers not only to the commons of energy but also to the question of a universal culture in the context of rising national, ethnic, and religious particularisms around the globe.
  • DATE : 2017-09-02 ~