The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Liquescence, occupied the outdoor courtyard on the first floor of the museum, was strategically located at the transition between two thematic spaces of the exhibition: "Physical" and "Fluid," and adjacent to the Museum's Barbara Riley Levin Conservatory.
Liquescence re-presents a state of becoming, a state of between solid and liquid, between light and shadow, figure and field, and metaphorically calling upon the duality of ephemerality and permanence, the virtual and the real inherent to the state of contemporary architecture. It is also intended to be a reflection of our collaborative practice itself which is evolving and indeterminate as process yet precise as a physical production.
Liquescence comprises of three tented spaces, each is linked to a window overlooking the courtyard. The overall effect of Liquescence integrates the emanating from a computer screen, pulsing at the rate of heartbeats. The installation serves as fluid marker of passing time as well as an etheral foil to the landmark mansion.
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Basil Cafe
Basil Cafe
Basil Cafe
Basil Cafe
Bean Table
Egg Block
Willa's Wonderland - Botanical Garden
Car Parks
Car Parks
Car Parks
Willa's Wonderland - Circus Politicus
Cocktail Ball
Cocktail Ball
Extending House
Extending House
Extending House
Folded Plate Rugs
Home Mechanics
Home Mechanics
Home Mechanics
Home Mechanics
Home Mechanics
Knox Garden
Knox Garden
Knox Garden
Knox Garden
Liquescence
12BLOCKS - Pachinko Block
Liquescence
12BLOCKS - RIPPLE BLOCK
Onan Observatory
Onan Observatory
12BLOCKS - Fold Block
The Traveling Photobooth
Willa's Wonderland - Soapbox
Steel Sprout
Steel Sprout
Unfolding House
Unfolding House
Unfolding House
Liquescence
Unfolding House
Onan Observatory
Willa's Wonderland - Soundfield
Unfolding House
Woman Suffrage Memorial