Kōchu
Università degli Studi Milano
A chameleon-like structure, which changes as the point of view changes, relates to the environment and the passage of time.
Kōchu is an expression of the tension between material and immaterial and its name means “pillars of light“
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The Project
It is made up of 1160 aluminum sheets measuring 3 meters by 7 cm in width which, when assembled together, reach a total height of 12 metres.
The twisting of the elements alone makes the architectural composition incorporeal and in variable relationship with the context. Made with the Japanese material Fortina produced by Toppan, the sheets, covered only on one side with wood and metal effect films, create chromatic and chiaroscuro effects on the internal and external surface of the installation.
Luca Trazzi stages, with the language of transparency, lightness and the strength that derives from them, the Japanese identity of Fortina produced by Toppan.
It also interprets the material quality, vastness and potential of the products. The installation also interacts with light.
The natural one, affecting differently during the hours of the day, changes the perception, while the artificial one, embedded at the foot of the base, grazing and sloping onto the external surface, progressively dematerializes the volume of the work which appears evanescent, physical but in continuous change.
