Canadian architecture firm RAW recently unveiled Prismatica, a dazzling public art installation in Montreal that emits light from 50 prisms. The six and a half-foot-tall structures are spread throughout the Place des Festivals where visitors can walk around all sides of the rotating kaleidoscopes. At night, they display soft-but-colorful lights that illuminate those that are passing by.
The prisms are made from panels laminated with a dichroic film, and they transmit and reflect every color in the visible spectrum. Contained in their bases are projectors that create an infinite interplay of lights and reflections. And, as the prisms rotate, a soundtrack of bells play, too.
Prismatica was designed with winter in mind. “We wanted to contribute an installation that was immersive, yet inviting. We wanted people to play around, have fun and, in doing so, forget about the cold,” RAW Roland Rom Colthoff explained. Their installation is one of two that was selected by the juries of the fifth annual Luminothrapie competition. So, if you're local to Montreal, you can check out the work until February 1, 2015.
Above Photo Credit: Cindy Boyce
Photo Credit: Cindy Boyce
Photo Credit: Cindy Boyce
Photo Credit: Cindy Boyce
Photo Credit: James Brittain
Photo Credit: James Brittain
Photo Credit: James Brittain
Photo Credit: James Brittain
Photo Credit: James Brittain
RAW Design website
via [Contemporist and Montral Ville UNESCO de Design]
