Constructed Aurora

In celebration of our firm's 35th anniversary, we presented "REVEALing Architecture," an exhibition of models, process, and works at the National Academy Museum in New York City. While architects typically devise creative solutions in response to a series of constraints, the exhibition offered the rare opportunity for us to create a new, site-specific sculpture—a nearly carte-blanche undertaking of pure formal and spatial exploration. Natural and biologic forms contribute to the resulting form's fluid geometries, recalling the form of a Mobius Strip that twists and pirouettes to simultaneously occupy and structure space. Tensile wires and louvers connect a continuous frame of bentwood pipes that modulate space and create an illusion of light, shadow, and kinetic movement.