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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. G9 Shanghai in China by Atelier INDJJune 12th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Atelier INDJ G九 exists beyond it primary purpose of dining and delves into a realm of exhibition, spectacle and participation. From the projects inception Atelier I-N-D-J founder Ian Douglas-Jones led the projects ambitions – “the unusually proportioned space just had to be exploited and celebrated, early on I had persuaded the client that this presented an opportunity to create something that subverts preconceptions” All elements of the project have been carefully considered; from bespoke furniture to a super scaled interactive light installation that terminates in a major site specific art work by British Artist INSA, this collaborative piece sees the 956 lights of the light installation merge with the art work, working together as one.  Image Courtesy © Bono Yan
 Image Courtesy © Bono Yan G九 is a culmination of ideas that have influenced atelier I-N-D-J from the studios inception. Technology Industry Luxury and Excess collide; manifest in concrete, raw steel, black marble, shimmering gold, bright light and high art. G九 is a brash celebration for the rise of the Chinese economic super power, more so glittered with gold befitting of the Paris of the east – 上海  Image Courtesy © Bono Yan The notion of luxury and excess reaches it’s pinnacle with INSA’s art wall. The interactive Lighting installation cascades through the space terminating in INSA’s trademark ‘Grafitti Fetish’- an exploration of the iconography of modern aspirations.  Image Courtesy © Bono Yan A brass 22m long brass table bisects the space acting as both banquette table and runway that dictates a simple spatial arrangement. Balanced upon a lateral beam a VIP dining platform sits high above the banquette table; this elevated position serves as symbolic elevation of status, an exclusive position of grandeur from which to survey the space, here users are invited to engage in the light installation and art piece – a 3D depth sensing camera empowers the user with the ability to control the speed brightness and pattern of the light with simple hand gestures, In this way the light installation and art work in synchronisation controlled by a singular user.  Image Courtesy © Bono Yan The light installation and art work collaboration between INDJ and INSA marks an evolution of INSA’s pioneering work with the GIF medium; whereby multiple frames are painstakingly painted photographed and animated digitally. G9 is a reversal of this process whereby the digital is manifest physically in the 67sqm art work.  Image Courtesy © Bono Yan  Image Courtesy © Bono Yan  Image Courtesy © Bono Yan  Image Courtesy © Bono Yan  Image Courtesy © Atelier INDJ  Image Courtesy © Atelier INDJ  Image Courtesy © Atelier INDJ  Image Courtesy © Atelier INDJ
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