This is the Lightcatcher at the Whatcom Museum in Seattle, Washington. It is design around a translucent wall that is 37 feet high and is 180 feet of a gently curving light fixture. In the day time it allows like into the interior spaces, while at night it glows from the interior illumination. I do like the idea of this color changing wall that is still funtional and sustainable at the same time, but the lines of the grid are really distracting me for some reason. I think they should have tried to find a softer color metal for the structure. In the daylight it looks angelic and soft, but at night it looks alot more edgy, which might have been what the architects, Olsen Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, wanted.Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Lightcatcher
This is the Lightcatcher at the Whatcom Museum in Seattle, Washington. It is design around a translucent wall that is 37 feet high and is 180 feet of a gently curving light fixture. In the day time it allows like into the interior spaces, while at night it glows from the interior illumination. I do like the idea of this color changing wall that is still funtional and sustainable at the same time, but the lines of the grid are really distracting me for some reason. I think they should have tried to find a softer color metal for the structure. In the daylight it looks angelic and soft, but at night it looks alot more edgy, which might have been what the architects, Olsen Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, wanted.
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