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PILLS

Based in Beijing, PILLS crafts art exhibition spaces and gallery pavilions characterized by boundary-dissolving reflective surfaces, suspended industrial armatures, and atmospheric, translucent layering. This body of work serves as a strong reference when designing immersive gallery enclosures that utilize mirrored planes, mist, and custom overhead rigs to blur spatial perimeters.

A glowing layered paper installation by PILLS showing an intricate tunnel-like cut-out urban landscape set inside a rustic industrial interior.

A glowing layered paper installation by PILLS

北京

An exhibition installation precedent demonstrating layered laser-cut or hand-cut paper geometries that create immersive, illuminated spatial depth.

What we like about this project
The sheer complexity of microscopic urban motifs cut into nested paper rings that fold outward like a vortex.

Materials

  • paper
  • light
  • cardboard

Visual identifiers

  • layered-paper
  • cut-out-tunnel
  • backlit-core
  • recursive-geometry

Style tags

  • conceptual
  • craft-based
  • immersive

Visual tags

  • installation
  • exhibition
  • model
  • intricate
  • craft
Geometry
A large-scale volumetric cube framing a deep, concentric, layered paper tunnel that recedes toward a glowing focal point.
Structural guess
External structural frame supporting tensioned or cantilevered paper diaphragms.
Spatial scale
Large room-scale installation, approximately human-height in aperture diameter.
Lighting
Backlit illumination from the core casts soft gradients and deep shadows across cascading layers of cut paper.
Atmosphere
Ethereal, glowing, and labyrinthine against the heavy backdrop of an industrial hall.
Environmental context
Exhibition space featuring rough masonry walls and industrial context framing the illuminated sculpture.
Spatial experience
The viewer peers into a recursive spatial depth where intricate cut-out planes create an illusion of an infinite microscopic city or ecosystem.
Composition rhythm
Concentric rings of silhouette patterns diminishing in scale toward a central vanishing point.
Style reading
Contemporary architectural installation art
Program
Exhibition installation or pavilion
Perspective
Model / Physical
Discipline
architecture
Materials
paper, light, cardboard
Visual identifiers
layered-paper, cut-out-tunnel, backlit-core, recursive-geometry
Style tags
conceptual, craft-based, immersive
Visual tags
installation, exhibition, model, intricate, craft
Geometry
A large-scale volumetric cube framing a deep, concentric, layered paper tunnel that recedes toward a glowing focal point.
Structural guess
External structural frame supporting tensioned or cantilevered paper diaphragms.
Spatial scale
Large room-scale installation, approximately human-height in aperture diameter.
Lighting
Backlit illumination from the core casts soft gradients and deep shadows across cascading layers of cut paper.
Atmosphere
Ethereal, glowing, and labyrinthine against the heavy backdrop of an industrial hall.
Environmental context
Exhibition space featuring rough masonry walls and industrial context framing the illuminated sculpture.
Spatial experience
The viewer peers into a recursive spatial depth where intricate cut-out planes create an illusion of an infinite microscopic city or ecosystem.
Composition rhythm
Concentric rings of silhouette patterns diminishing in scale toward a central vanishing point.
Style reading
Contemporary architectural installation art
Program
Exhibition installation or pavilion
Perspective
Model / Physical
Discipline
architecture

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A glowing layered paper installation by PILLS showing an intricate tunnel-like cut-out urban landscape set inside a rustic industrial interior.

A glowing layered paper installation by PILLS

北京

An exhibition installation precedent demonstrating layered laser-cut or hand-cut paper geometries that create immersive, illuminated spatial depth.

What we like about this project
The sheer complexity of microscopic urban motifs cut into nested paper rings that fold outward like a vortex.

Materials

  • paper
  • light
  • cardboard

Visual identifiers

  • layered-paper
  • cut-out-tunnel
  • backlit-core
  • recursive-geometry

Style tags

  • conceptual
  • craft-based
  • immersive

Visual tags

  • installation
  • exhibition
  • model
  • intricate
  • craft
Geometry
A large-scale volumetric cube framing a deep, concentric, layered paper tunnel that recedes toward a glowing focal point.
Structural guess
External structural frame supporting tensioned or cantilevered paper diaphragms.
Spatial scale
Large room-scale installation, approximately human-height in aperture diameter.
Lighting
Backlit illumination from the core casts soft gradients and deep shadows across cascading layers of cut paper.
Atmosphere
Ethereal, glowing, and labyrinthine against the heavy backdrop of an industrial hall.
Environmental context
Exhibition space featuring rough masonry walls and industrial context framing the illuminated sculpture.
Spatial experience
The viewer peers into a recursive spatial depth where intricate cut-out planes create an illusion of an infinite microscopic city or ecosystem.
Composition rhythm
Concentric rings of silhouette patterns diminishing in scale toward a central vanishing point.
Style reading
Contemporary architectural installation art
Program
Exhibition installation or pavilion
Perspective
Model / Physical
Discipline
architecture
Materials
paper, light, cardboard
Visual identifiers
layered-paper, cut-out-tunnel, backlit-core, recursive-geometry
Style tags
conceptual, craft-based, immersive
Visual tags
installation, exhibition, model, intricate, craft
Geometry
A large-scale volumetric cube framing a deep, concentric, layered paper tunnel that recedes toward a glowing focal point.
Structural guess
External structural frame supporting tensioned or cantilevered paper diaphragms.
Spatial scale
Large room-scale installation, approximately human-height in aperture diameter.
Lighting
Backlit illumination from the core casts soft gradients and deep shadows across cascading layers of cut paper.
Atmosphere
Ethereal, glowing, and labyrinthine against the heavy backdrop of an industrial hall.
Environmental context
Exhibition space featuring rough masonry walls and industrial context framing the illuminated sculpture.
Spatial experience
The viewer peers into a recursive spatial depth where intricate cut-out planes create an illusion of an infinite microscopic city or ecosystem.
Composition rhythm
Concentric rings of silhouette patterns diminishing in scale toward a central vanishing point.
Style reading
Contemporary architectural installation art
Program
Exhibition installation or pavilion
Perspective
Model / Physical
Discipline
architecture

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