- New alliances
The project’s perspective is to focus on spatial experience rather than building technology, being a place of reading and exchanging books, in which printed literature endurances in its role of cultural amplifier. Inspired by Richard Brautigan’s “In Watermelon Sugar” and its surreal utopia, Nameless Sky is a simple but meaningful semi-artificial pavilion formed by an open-air platform (a space for the human body) dominated by an unusually colorful sky (a space for the human mind).
This is a symbolic project, reiterating the bond between spatial design and culture. It addresses the not-homogeneous distribution of technological resources worldwide by relying on an easy to build structure where users imagination is the experiential driving force. While readers and book exchangers interact with ordinary materials, their minds are free to wander in the unknown of the colorful universe above them, powered by everyone’s imagination.
Human who lives in thought of clouds somehow is scared of flying. Looking through only one perspective is always safe and ideal for most. But for the others who seek adventures and unknown worlds, we welcome you to Nameless sky. In here with every book that you exchange you also exchange your imagination, universe, and mind.
The design is about the relationship between the lower nine sqm wooden deck and the colorful upper sky, enclosed and supported in a semi-transparent light structure. Users interact with the pavilion in two ways: from the inside, it contains two intimate, large, and comfortable sits which from the outside integrate two book-sharing shelving units.
Despite it is open-air, the threshold is a symbolic element that requires the users to bend over to both access the inner and outer part of the pavilion. The colorful sky is made by an iridescent foil; it seeks to stimulate an artificial experience altering the perception of reality without losing contact with it. An open skylight allows the local weather and context, ideally a park-scenario, to constantly affect the environment.
To allow an easy and quick construction all over the world, the design is built up with standard- modular elements, which once disassembled might be all transported in a van. Since this is an off-grid proposal, a small solar panel supports the only energy-requiring device, a low-emission led light that allows the iridescent sky to glow also at night time.
Whatsoever the subject is, every book corresponds to a different imaginary universe. The iridescent Nameless Sky comes from the union of thousands of them.
