Lighting designers Artemide have translated Zaha Hadid’s design vision into an interesting, twirling installation in Milan.

Twirl is the installation conceived by Hadid for the event Interni Mutant Architecture & Design, organised during the 2011 Furniture Exhibition.

Hosted in the quadrangle of the Milan State University, Artemide has created an “ad hoc special edition” of “Algoritmo”, a light source conceived by architect and designer Carlotta de Bevilacqua with Paola di Arianello, which allows full integration into the project’s architecture.

According to the design concept, Twirl is meant as a modern interpretation of the traditional architecture of renaissance quadrangles, obtained by turning their stiff Cartesian geometries into the fluid linearity of dynamic space.

The light of “Algoritmo” is what gives energy to the three-dimensional curved geometries of the installation and life to the spatial vortex establishing a dialogue with the surrounding colonnade.

“Algoritmo” in the outdoor built-in floor version (for outdoor walk-on spaces) interprets the spatial dimension through formal silence, where the matter staging light remains concealed.

The light source, especially selected for this project, includes LEDs, RGB dynamic light and White light, configured in order to provide the different required performances.

In this lighting technique project, Artemide implements a concept of environmental quality aimed at subtraction — less matter, less energy, overcoming perception and formal chaos.

The space and the subject become the structural factors of an involvement that develops through the spatial experience of the environment created by Zaha Hadid.

David Wheeldon

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