Competition win for atelier kim.gottlieb: a 280 sq.m. permanent installation for
the new City Hall building of Gwangju, Jolla-Do province, Korea.
The work articulates the contours of the much-beloved Moodeung mountain, central to Gwangju's identity, using illuminated fabrics woven with optical fibers.
UPDATED PHOTOS: November 1, 2003
First inspection today by, among others, the Mayor, and it seems everyone's very satisfied (fancy that?) we only had a couple of banks of optical-fiber material up and glowing, but the building is far from ready itself, and Optonest/Prof. Han did a great job squeezing every possible lumen into the fiber.
Last minutes delivery of our custom 150W metal-halide light sources. and 1.3km of optical fiber light guides to connect them to the mountain.
the first couple of sections lit up!
the friendly folks at Optonest connecting things up behind the scenes.
as promised: 280 sq.m of illuminatable mountain (sorry for the bad photo, more soon)