SO-IL

Spiky . Beijing

Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) . china international architectural biennial 2013

Providing shelter is the starting point of architecture, protecting us from the elements. Most often our roofs are angled or ﬂ at, heavy and opaque.
In exceptional cases, we experience a more ephemeral condition, a light and transparent structure, allowing for a totally different relationship with our surroundings. Spiky is a conic transparent canopy, suspended on stainless steel poles. Through its optical performance, it reﬂects and refracts the world around us, blending sky, nature and ground into a total environment. The system is ﬂexible, and can be composed of anywhere from 9 to 25 modules.