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South of the Clouds
South of the Clouds
Kunming, China
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Other Projects by Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM)
South of the Clouds
Kunming, China
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
This art installation is set in the capital of Yunan, a province which translated directly as South of the clouds.” Based on our first Cloud 1.0 waffle structure sculpture we developed a new geometric organization based on the accumulation of spherical volumes into a cloud-like assembly. Through the digital model and the physical models, we studied the cloud gate to achieve an object-like geometry from elevation that disintegrates as you look into the oblique angle of the waffle. The front and side elevations read as abstract variations of the traditional Chinese cloud pattern. The sunlight in Kunming is famously bright and the sky famously blue, so we intended to make good use of the shadow of the structure and its transformation throughout the day. Kunming is also known as the eternal Spring city because the flowers of many species remarkably stay in bloom all year. To celebrate the colorful local color we painted the structure in a minty fresh pink to blue gradient.
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