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Nendo designs Christmas tree with flickering star-shaped cutouts

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Japanese design studio Nendo has created a gold-coloured Christmas tree for the Tokyo Midtown procuring centre in Roppongi, Tokyo, with kinetic cutouts designed to resemble “glowing lights”.

The 7.5-metre-high tree, which sits in the midst of the procuring centre, has a polyhedral floor constructed from flat metallic panels which have been bolted collectively to type a pyramid.

The Nendo Christmas tree is situated in Tokyo Midtown

Behind the panels, which have fluttering star-shaped cutouts, sit 416 compact followers. These had been programmed to maneuver the panels in patterns up, down and throughout the tree.

“The items not solely sway and transfer with the wind however can even cease swinging within the air catching the wind on the programmed timing,” Nendo mentioned. “By repeatedly receiving a specific amount of airflow, the items additionally float upward in a sustained method.”

Christmas tree designed by Nendo in Roppongi, Tokyo
The conical set up is lit from inside

The patterned cutouts, which Nendo mentioned resemble “glowing lights”, seem to swirl across the tree or create a rhythmic sample that strikes up and down the conical set up.

Matching cutouts in the identical color, described by Nendo as a “matte champagne gold”, had been hung from the ceiling elsewhere within the procuring centre.

These items, which comprise each the cutout stars and the squares from which they had been minimize, could be seen on Tokyo Midtown’s backyard terrace in addition to in its galleria and atrium terraces.

“The theme glitter within the air interprets to creating the uplifting and shimmering ambiance, the very essence of Christmas, by actually producing ‘glitters’ by ‘air’,” Nendo mentioned of the ornamental ornaments.

Cutout stars in gold at Tokyo Midtown
Star-shaped cutouts had been hung from the ceiling

Nendo, which creates each structure and merchandise, just lately unveiled an archive to deal with its merchandise and furnishings that was constructed from precast concrete field culverts.

The studio additionally designed the Tokyo 2020 Olympic cauldron, which opened as much as reveal a hydrogen-powered Olympic flame and was amongst seventeen designers to reimagine vogue home Dior’s Medallion chair for Milan design week 2021.

The images is by Takumi Ota and the video is by Fowl and bugs.




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