Khoury Levit Fong shared with us their proposal for the GLOW/SHIFTboston Copley Square Competition. Their concept consists of an urban room, and hanging in the middle of it is a great chandelier. Dewdrop-shaped globes hang from a funicular mesh support, each illuminated by a wick-like row of low-energy addressable LEDs. It is light which is given weight and pulls down upon its supports to produce an inverted dome of scintillating light. Through the middle, the oculus at the center, the unobstructed sky is visible again. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Each light fixture weights the stainless-steel cable mesh from which it hangs like the sand bags of Gaudi’s hanging chain models. Lighting is distributed throughout the square, providing local area lighting by , creating luminous rooms under the allées of trees flanking the north and south edges of the square with up-lighting , and illuminating each of the surrounding buildings with dedicated fixtures. All these lights are unobtrusive and coordinated in their color and intensity with the central chandelier. Thus, if the chandelier flickers, or changes color so do all the lights of the square.
