ATELIER I-N-D-J  I-N-D-J工作室

Nebula

Nebula 

Atelier I-N-D-J

Nebula
© Seth Powers

ARCHITECTS
Atelier I-n-d-j

LEAD ARCHITECT
Ian Douglas-jones

CLIENTS
Wuhan Mzly Co., Ltd.

DESIGN TEAM
Haitao Lin, Qi Zheng, Yuan Xiang, Laura Polvara

ENGINEERING
Xtruc Institute

SOUND
Alex Damboianu

PROGRAMMING
Vasily Betin

PHOTOGRAPHS
Seth Powers

AREA
12 M²

YEAR
2024

LOCATION
Wu Han Shi, China

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Arts & Architecture

Nebula
© Seth Powers

Text description provided by architect.

A building whose memory is engrained in the very walls, a deep patina of stories of which we know not. A narrative that leaves us wondering.

An unanswered melancholy whose glimpse of the future is presented as a continuum of the new and as yet untold stories, this is a work about potential. About preservation of the past yet celebration of the future.

Nebula
© Seth Powers
Nebula
© Seth Powers

The 3-storey rotunda in which the artwork is sited, allows us to create a portal from past connecting into the future. 

Ecclesiastical in character the 13m high cylindrical space has moments of magic as afternoon sun filters through arched windows, crepuscular rays of sunlight that remind us of a greater power. It is a space that elicits awe and opens an aperture to allow the sublime through.

Nebula
© Seth Powers
Nebula
© Seth Powers

NEBULA is a work that reaches out to connect to that greater power - connecting the nostalgic patina of the past, a compelling beauty of decay that's cast against a glistening shock of the new. It is in this dichotomy of old and new we seek to exploit. In essence Nebula is a celebration of rebirth, its form a cyclical continuum, an infinitum.

It is in this form and representation that NEBULA celebrates the future narrative yet to play out. Our atomized compartmentalized modernity; multitasked lives dominated by efficacy and fractured like 5 second video clips, all staccato, all noise and no signal.

Digital lives envelope dominate and dictate, it's in this fragmentation our soul yearns for a clear path through. Nebula is an antithesis to the noise - 6 minutes of focus, an intense yet intimate immensity in which we find ourselves and the sublime is revealed.

Nebula
© Seth Powers
Nebula
© Seth Powers
Nebula
© Seth Powers

Nebula is carefully structured, a call to action commences the show, glitches and sounds of opening pervade - dimensional white noise enhances the spatial orientation whilst low bass drives highlight the spatial immensity.

Punctuated by structured bass and droning sounds, and low tones that ground the soul - primal beats at 120beats per minute resonate at the natural frequency of the human movement.

Light reaches out in searching, from outside searching inward. Sirens pierce as light scans past from outside to inside, searching out of ourselves, before transforming into a search within.

Nebula
© Seth Powers
Nebula
© Seth Powers

From positive to negative space. Chronology is destroyed, as past merges with present and future concurrently. Our inspiration is elicited through the science fiction genre, of an oxymoronic futuristic nostalgia.

The Sound and light experience commences at sunset each day according to the precise coordinates and sunset definitions.

Nebula
© Seth Powers


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