Sarbalé Ke
California, United States · 2019
Photo · Iwan Baan
A precedent for vibrant, temporary public installations that use modular conical geometry and bold color patterns to create landmarks and gathering spaces in vast open landscapes.
- What we like about this project
- The smallest cones act as playful, child-sized entryways or seating markers scattered around the larger towers.
Materials
- painted-wood
- steel-framing
- textile-panels
Visual identifiers
- conical-towers
- geometric-patterns
- vibrant-colors
- temporary-pavilions
- festival-architecture
Style tags
- expressive
- vernacular-inspired
- temporary
- playful
Visual tags
- temporary-installation
- public-art
- shading-canopy
- modular-geometry
- color-blocking
- Geometry
- A cluster of conical, tapering towers with triangular and diamond-patterned paneling. The bases are elevated on pointed, arch-like legs, creating open-air walk-through pavilions.
- Facade system
- Triangular and diamond-shaped paneling attached to a skeletal frame.
- Structural guess
- Internal steel or timber space frame supporting lightweight exterior cladding panels.
- Spatial scale
- Varying heights ranging from small, human-scale cones to monumental towers several stories tall.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting long, soft shadows across the grass field.
- Atmosphere
- Energetic and festive, with the bright, warm-toned structures contrasting against the natural green and blue landscape.
- Environmental context
- Set in a vast, flat grassy festival ground with palm trees, temporary event structures, and distant mountains under a clear sky.
- Spatial experience
- The structures act as vibrant, scale-giving landmarks on an open grassy field, inviting visitors to gather underneath their hollow, shaded interiors.
- Composition rhythm
- An organic, clustered arrangement of towers of varying heights, creating a dynamic skyline.
- Style reading
- Expressive contemporary vernacular-inspired installation
- Program
- Temporary public art installation and gathering pavilion
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-wood, steel-framing, textile-panels
- Visual identifiers
- conical-towers, geometric-patterns, vibrant-colors, temporary-pavilions, festival-architecture
- Style tags
- expressive, vernacular-inspired, temporary, playful
- Visual tags
- temporary-installation, public-art, shading-canopy, modular-geometry, color-blocking
- Geometry
- A cluster of conical, tapering towers with triangular and diamond-patterned paneling. The bases are elevated on pointed, arch-like legs, creating open-air walk-through pavilions.
- Facade system
- Triangular and diamond-shaped paneling attached to a skeletal frame.
- Structural guess
- Internal steel or timber space frame supporting lightweight exterior cladding panels.
- Spatial scale
- Varying heights ranging from small, human-scale cones to monumental towers several stories tall.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight casting long, soft shadows across the grass field.
- Atmosphere
- Energetic and festive, with the bright, warm-toned structures contrasting against the natural green and blue landscape.
- Environmental context
- Set in a vast, flat grassy festival ground with palm trees, temporary event structures, and distant mountains under a clear sky.
- Spatial experience
- The structures act as vibrant, scale-giving landmarks on an open grassy field, inviting visitors to gather underneath their hollow, shaded interiors.
- Composition rhythm
- An organic, clustered arrangement of towers of varying heights, creating a dynamic skyline.
- Style reading
- Expressive contemporary vernacular-inspired installation
- Program
- Temporary public art installation and gathering pavilion
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture