Light tunnel

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Light tunnel

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Cultural › Gallery Pavilion Memorial

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25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

There is a long way until enlightenment.In my project I tried to express the importance of light in
different ways. Light can be the aim and the means.

While as aim, it is quite an abstract issue, but light as
means is rather objective category. Light can include information in several
ways. Light has information about the form, colour, distance, texture,
temperature, speed etc. of objects. 80% of the information coming from the
outside world and being processed by our brain comes through our eyes, via light.

It is commonplace that light forms space. But it also has
the ability to define spaces. In my project there is significantly less amount
of light than what is normal to the human eye. But this little amount has very
important role (besides letting other senses work with more emphasis), as it
defines the space around us and literally serves as guideline to our final aim.

EnlightenmentEnlightenment means a radical change of one’s point of view
about the world. At the end of the tunnel, reaching its highest point we
glimpse a particular object (e.g. a church of Krems-an-der-Donau). As our eyes
are adjusted to the strong light, and we are approaching the opening, the
observed object gets into different composition, our viewing angle becomes
wider and wider.

Light stripesThe inner space constantly receives natural light during the
daytime. Even when the weather is cloudy, there is enough light to produce four
light-lines, which guide the spectators along the tunnel.

In each section, for some minutes during the day, the sun
shines directly into the building, painting exciting lines onto the floor and
walls.

There is never enough light in the tunnel to produce perfect
visual conditions, just enough to create a unique, mystical atmosphere.

As paralel lines meet in infinity, these four lines meet in
a common, big lightness at the end.

Light in different languagesVisuality is a universal language. In order to address the
different nations I expressed the informative attribute of light by writing the
word LIGHT on the wall in many languages.

In the concrete walls there are thin steel plates, in which
words are carved. When the sky is clear, direct sunlight casts the words onto
the floor and walls of the tunnel. Through the letters the word LIGHT is formed
multilingually, constantly moving as the sun moves, changing form and colour.

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