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Frontierspace Competition in Vancouver, Grand Prize
AR+D Award 2005, Honorable Mention
JCD Design Award2006, Gold Prize
Disply Design Award2006, 1st Prize
SDA Award2006,, Honorable Mention
IIDA, The Paul Waterbury Award for the British Columbia Section
 
    The first-prized international competition transforming a alley into a space for events in the old urban area in Vancouver, Canada. 6 large nylon balloons containing LED are designed to be "caught" in-between tensile wall surfaces without any harm to each walls and to light up night events. The gaps penetrating sunlight between each balloons engage passengers to look up into the sky.

location: Gastown/Vancouver/CANADA
principal use: installation
site area: 2677m2
structure: membrane(nylon)