The Impulse Winter Installation, Montreal Landscape Design, Architecture, Architect, Images
The Impulse Winter Installation
Urban Design in Montreal – design by Lateral Office and CS Design
21 Dec 2015
The Impulse Winter Installation in Montreal
Design: Lateral Office and CS Design, in collaboration with EGP Group
Location: Montreal, Canada
Montrealers and visitors are invited, from December 10 to January 31, to explore Impulse, a winter installation comprising 30 giant seesaws that will transform the Place des Festivals into a vast illuminated playground, accompanied by a set of all-new video projections. The creation is the work of Toronto-based firm Lateral Office and Montreal-basedCS Design, in collaboration with EGP Group of Montreal.
image : Ulysse Lemerise / OSA
The consortium, chosen through an open competition for the sixth annual Luminothérapie event, has created a playful interactive space that will warm hearts of all ages during the cold season.
image : Ulysse Lemerise / OSA
“Every year, we are eager to give Montrealers a new creative winter experience in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles. Luminothérapie’s public installations transform our relationship with the city, beautify it, and give it a wonderful friendly touch. Luminothérapie also keeps Montreal shining bright around the world as a hub of interactive art,” said Chantal Rossi, Ville de Montréal Associate Councillor Culture, Heritage and Design.
image : Ulysse Lemerise / OSA
Impulse
The interactive work on the Place des Festivals presents a series of giant illuminated and sound-producing seesaws. To activate them, visitors straddle them like any other seesaw. Once in motion, the built-in lights and speakers produce a harmonious sequence of sounds and lights, resulting in a constantly evolving ephemeral composition.
image : Martine Doyon
Through the use of architectural lines, a hypnotic soundtrack and an entertaining illusion of depth, the nine architectural video projections echo the seesaws of the Place des Festivals. Playing with the notions of balance and unbalance, symmetry and asymmetry, tension and harmony, the video projections are visual experiments illustrating the original soundtrack created for each video.
Impulse is an urban installation that renews itself for every different audience. Each person becomes, while on the seesaws, the player of a novel instrument.
image : Martine Doyon
The Impulse Winter Installation in Montreal – Building Information
30 Seesaws with Light and Sound, Place des Festivals
Sunday to Wednesday: noon to 10 p.m.
Thursday to Saturday: noon to 11 p.m.
9 Architectural Video Projections
Sunday to Thursday: 5 to 11 p.m.
Friday and Saturday: 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Seesaw design: Lateral Office and CS Design, in collaboration with EGP Group
Sound design: Mitchell Akiyama
Mechanical design and production: Générique Design
Electronic and interactive production: Robocut Studio
Video projections: Maotik and Iregular
The Bureau du design of the Ville de Montréal collaborates with the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership to plan and produce Luminothérapie.
image : Martine Doyon
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