aurora

STYLECRAFT SHOWROOM - MELBOURNE

Aurora was designed as a companion piece to the glowing angularity of Christina Fogale’s floating cloud-like installation Cirrus. An intricate folded floating form which hung in the ten-metre void space above the staircase and that cascaded down from the ground floor entrance to the basement showroom.

The back-lit luminous wall was made from twenty framed panels that housed multiple layers of semi-translucent polypropylene sheet. The design's pattern incorporated overlapping geometries that created a frieze that ran across the length and breadth of the wall. The wall was designed to ensure that the eye danced across its surface, continually finding different relationships and juxtapositions within its overlapping curves and hues.

As one moved around the showroom the wall’s interaction with light shifted and changed. Viewed from behind, the wall took on a lustrous sheen and the colours blended as soft pastels, while from the stairs the wall’s colours would intensify and fade as you moved past. At night from the street the wall seemed to project itself onto the window glass and merge with the furniture forms and corporate graphics, instilling a dynamic vibrancy and a visual presence within the showroom.