Wind Sculptures
Ned Kahn is an accomplished North California sculptor who deploys materials in order to celebrate and amplify natural forces. His large-scale wind installations, which have names like Wind Portal, Technorama Facade, and Fragmented Sea, utilize vast arrays panels made of aluminum, steel, and other materials to shimmer and dance in the breeze, allowing the natural environment to influence the design.
In Articulated Cloud, for example, thousands of 9-inch squares of perforated aluminum are mounted on low friction hinges so that the entire surface of the facade responds to the wind. Each moving panel is perforated with thousands of different sized holes that, when viewed from a distance, create a photographic mosaic of sand dune images. When sunlight passes through the screens, intricate shadow images of the dunes are projected onto the walls and floor of the building lobby. [via Ned Kahn; suggested by Kate Diamond, Seattle.]
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We worked with Ned Kahn on a sand dune interactive for a children's science center in Kuwait and it was really rewarding.
He recently did the exterior of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, and he has a great video selection of his work at http://nedkahn.com/videoGallery.html
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