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Fosun Foundation Art Center model with bronze kinetic tube facade on a white plinth

Cultural & Exhibition · Shanghai

Fosun Foundation Art Center model

An iconic cultural building model with a movable, layered mechanical facade — the bronze curtain of tubes shifts just like the real building on the Bund.

The Fosun Foundation building on Shanghai's Bund is wrapped in a moving curtain of bronze-coloured tubes that slide to reveal the galleries behind. A static model would miss the point, so our mechanics department built a working miniature of the curtain: layers of individually finished tubes that move on a concealed drive.

The tubes were cut and finished by hand, the core building printed and assembled behind them, and the whole piece mounted on a white cylindrical plinth that conceals the drive and controller.

Highlights

  • Working kinetic facade on a concealed drive
  • Hand-finished metallic tube curtain
  • Concealed controller in a cylindrical plinth
  • Museum-grade finish for public display

Gallery 3 plates

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