Tabanlioglu joins Arik Levy at LDF
Tabanlıoğlu Architects has been chosen to showcase its installation with Arik Levy at the inaugural Somerset House 10 Designers in the West Wing at the London Design Festival 2015.
The Istanbul-based practice has recently opened its London office, and its partnership with artist and industrial designer, Arik Levy, brings together two like-minded spheres of talent in the two-room installation at Somerset House.
Entitled ‘Transition; Warm/Wet’, their collaboration involves the creation of a lowered ceiling of light made of LED strips, which is in fact an extension of Levy’s light sculpture ‘Fractal Projects’. This is paired with a multi-faceted kinetic object with a reflective surface. Made by Tabanlıoğlu Architects, this object will sit beneath the illuminated ceiling. One room will host a dense layer of light that is reflected in the floor, so creating the ‘warm’ room. The other will be more sparsely lit with opaque qualities over a solid pool – an endlessly shifting metal platform that holds dispersing water drops – evoking a ‘wet’ cooler sensation.
The joint work between Tabanlıoğlu Architects and Levy will employ diverse mediums of light and solid, dry and wet, warm and cold, in an interdisciplinary collaboration between architecture and art. Indeed, Levy highlighted the aptness of the joint project, stating of the Tabanlıoğlu team that “our disciplines merge perfectly and our installation will reflect themes that are consistent throughout both our bodies of work to create a striking collaboration.”
Moreover, the Tabanlıoğlu team states: “We are thrilled to partner with such a talent for our first London Design Festival; Arik is a long-standing friend of Tabanlıoğlu Architects and we are excited at this opportunity to work closely with him at what is sure to be a thriving hub at the heart of this year’s festival.”
