model 1:100


Lüszter // 2021

competition in collaboration with

// Balaskó Levente
// Pálinkás-Szűcs Tilla


INITIAL VISION SKETCHES

The grid pattern of the courtyards of the OTP headquarters is not easy to break, as the system of strict lines and edges, appearing in the form of ribbon windows and slabs, gives the building a very distinct character.
The starting point of the design was that the Lüszter should be located in a three-dimensional grid, structurally continuing the anatomy of the building, but still subverting it in some form. The planted forest analogy was a defining image when creating the first sketches.


In addition to Jessica Poundstone's mosaic-like works, Sol LeWitt's grid-like sculpture plays an important role in the prefaces.

FORMAL EXPERIMENTS

Initially, the colored planes were placed along an axis, creating a layering that became an important element of the installation.







SYSTEM

The Lüszter can finally step out of the grid in such a way that the play of axes, colors and shapes creates different and varied spatial experiences in the inner courtyards. The aim of the system was to create installations that are strongly connected but serve as separate navigation points from one courtyard to the next. As you move through the spaces, the entropy gradually increases, the units move along the X and Y axes, and by involving formal variations, different layouts are formed, which then come together when entering the next courtyard.
Thus, a different installation is created in each courtyard, which structurally does not leave the building system, but is integrated into it, however, the polyester units arranged on stretched steel wires are illuminated by the sun or the light emanating from the office, and these in turn result in different spatial situations in the inner courtyards. It is primarily the projection of sunlight onto the surface that brings out the installation's phenomenal shimmer on the surfaces and reflections on the interior walls of the courtyards.