Awards & Acknowledgements:
2022, Official Selection - Commercial spaces and hotels. IV Iberoamerican Lighting Design Biennial. Mexico
2020, Finalist - Architecture+ Art. Architizer A+Awards. New York, USA
2019. Finalist - Special Projects. The Plan Award. Italy
2019, Honorable mention - Plastic Assembly. 3rd Biennial of Young Architects (FCARM), Mexico
EDAA Scope: design, installation production
YUPICA Scope: art installation
Design Team: Luis Arturo García, Yupica, Juan Hernández, Daniel de León
Art Team: Yupica, Hada Nayeli Flores, Dante Ayala
Music: Chimijo
Lighting: KOVA Innovación
Client: Design House 2018
Photography: Studio Chirika, Mariana Cárdenas
Video: Studio Chirika
Sponsors: Mármoles ARCA (marble), Fine Floors (wood), Clásicos Mexicanos (furniture), Sonos (sound system), Comex (paint), Knauf (drywall)
The audio-light art installation – Co – Co – Co – Monte Líbano 930 is the origin and the end of a path that groups three spaces covered with different materials. It begins in darkness and transitions towards luminosity and sound clarity in an ensamble of materials, textures, light and sound.
The intervention overlaps new materials in order to transform the spaces into simple observation and resonance boxes. In a sequence from less to more, the work explores the visual, acoustic and ornate qualities of marble, wood, paint and rice, the latter being a central raw material in the practices of the artist Yupica.
The geometries and continuities of the planes create such containers where the textures and reflections are mixed to endow depth to the surfaces –literally and symbolically–. The apparent void that exists in the rooms gives direction to the principal content of the intervention: the sensorial experience of everyone who walks through.
