Studio Olafur Eliasson

Image used on Blog post '1062' (from S3)

After the solstice today, the days will be longer, nights shorter! The Domadalur daylight series (north), 2006

21/12/2016

Image used on Blog post '1061' (from S3)

16/12/2016

09/12/2016

The studio has had a close collaboration with Glashütte Lamberts for many years. For a new work a special kind of green glass was handcrafted by incorporating glacial rock flour into the raw material

07/12/2016

Image used on Blog post '1056' (from Instagram) - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson

07/12/2016

Image used on Blog post '1051' (from S3)

Glacial ice melting within a concrete block

06/12/2016

"For the Ilulissat Icefjord Park, experiments with ice were essential to the design process. We brought 1500 kilograms of ice from Greenland into our studio, transported in a refrigerated container. We did tests with concrete to explore the design options available to us when using ice as formwork for concrete. The idea for the project was to take ice from the fjord and cast a block of concrete around it. Then, after the ice melted, the visitors would be standing in the space previously occupied by the ice. This would provide an experience of seeing and sensing things that do not otherwise lend themselves to being seen and discovered. It’s impossible to get any closer to the ice than this. The experience of negative space familiar from caves or churches. This connection between the space itself and the material from which it was created is extraordinary. The form is imbued with the memory of the ice."

Sebastian Behmann, co-founder of Studio Other Spaces, part of upcoming interview in Magazine GAM 13

06/12/2016

Architecture shaped by climate change - casting glacial ice in concrete
Studio Other Spaces' proposal for Ilulissat Icefjord Park, Greenland
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The Ilulissat Icefjord Park uses the melting of ice to shape space. Studio Other Spaces has created a unique design strategy where ice is at once the formwork of a concrete structure and the focal point of the resulting space. For the Ilulissat Icefjord Park, Studio Other Spaces uses naturally calved icebergs harvested directly from the nearby ice fjord to create an exhibition building, called the Ice Void, which harbours in its walls the memory of the ice that was used to shape it. Together with the Ice Void, and linked to it outdoors by a 360-degree path, the Sun Cone building defines the Icefjord Park. The light glass structure of the Sun Cone positions the visitor centre directly in the landscape and offers guests a spectacular panoramic view of the surroundings and the Arctic sun. The park helps make the overwhelming experience of visiting the ice fjord comprehensible – providing visitors with a scale for contemplating and relating to the awe-inspiring ice fjord.

06/12/2016

Encounters with Ice Watch. Featuring dancers from Paris Opera Ballet and Company Wayne McGregor
More about the Ice Watch project here: www.icewatchparis.com

05/12/2016

Image used on Blog post '1054' (from S3)

05/12/2016

Harvesting glacial ice that has broken off from the Greenland ice sheet #PresenceofAbsence

05/12/2016

"At first we feel nothing, we are insensitive, we are naturalized. And then suddenly we feel not something, but the absence of something we did not know before could possibly be lacking"

Excerpt from Bruno Latour "Air"

05/12/2016