We've all been mesmerized by kaleidoscopes at some point in our lives. Now Japanese designers Masakazu Shirane and Saya Miyazaki have taken the popular handheld child's toy to the next level. Instead of looking into the trippy tunnel of colors with one eye, you can walk through a maze of rainbow mirrors.
The immersive installation, called Wink Space, was built inside an international shipping container for the 2013 Kobe Biennale, a biennial celebration of art and culture in Japan. The psychedelic installation was constructed by folding one giant mirror like origami and then connecting the resulting 1,100 triangular panels with zippers. The zippers allowed Shirane and Miyazaki to easily put together and take apart the installation, a concept that has the potential to revolutionize the way we look at space for future living arrangements.
"We wanted to create the world's first zipper architecture," Shirane told My Modern Met. "In other words, this polyhedron is completely connected by zippers. And in order to facilitate even more radical change some of the surfaces open and close like windows."
[via Juxtapoz]
