designed as a protest to the space beneath the ramp of le corbusier’s carpenter center for the arts, this installation objectifies the spatial relationships between structural members and inhabitants through sensorial techniques that at once verify, question and refute the integrity of the system.

 

one module of the columnar grid is further subdivided by a 3d grid of light columns, a much lighter grid system which is juxtaposed with the heavy, load-bearing concrete columns. as visitors wander throughout the space, the matrix of lights is activated by their presence, seeming to follow their every move. acting as spatial antagonists, the visitors disrupt the structural grid’s alignment and create a break in the light system, registering various led’s throughout the matrix to flicker as though the columns of light are losing their supposed structure as well.

 

through the installation’s dually physical reaction to the presence of the occupant, the visitor is forced to confront their motion and interaction with the space as its structural integrity is, for a moment, questioned at the levels of light and materiality. upon an understanding of the overall system, the visitor realizes that it is his or her sole presence that is the antagonist after all.