A new installation created by architects FreelandBuck will be permanently installed in the Museum Lab of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
The installation, titled Overview, is inspired by Renaissance era trompe l'oeil ceilings and features geometries that correspond to those of a historic leaded glass ceiling that was once installed above the room where the "three-dimensional" drawing is currently located.
The original ceiling was removed as part of a 1970s-era renovation of the historic former Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny building that now houses the museum. Describing the design, Brennan Buck, partner at FreelandBuck, said, "The intricacy of the original ceiling allowed us to create a dense cloud of lines overhead while clearly evoking the ornamental style of the original building."
The installation is designed to offer a series of optical illusions that shift in character as one moves around the space. When standing directly below the ceiling, for example, the ceiling appears as the original glass dome once did. From more oblique angles, the geometries collapse, revealing "a visual puzzle to solve," according to David Freeland, also a partner at FreelandBuck.
The installation represents the second attempt by the firm to explore the optical terrains surrounding indeterminately drawn ceiling installations. In 2017, FreelandBuck was commissioned by the Rewnick Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum of Art in Washington, D.C. to create their Parallax Gap installation.
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Very cool.
Could use this in my kitchen.
Cool!
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