Luminarium Adventure

When Chris and I went to Place des Arts to buy tickets for the Metropolis event, we came across the Just For Laughs/Juste Pour Rire Festival going on. And there was this weird, inflated structure that was situated there. It was free to visit, so me and Chris got in line. Turns out it was called a Luminarium, and was built by a group called the Architects of Air, who have built several of these such structures and have them touring various cities. The particular one we visited was called Amococo and is the biggest of the Luminaria.

The Architects of Air have existed since 1992 and are based in Nottingham, UK. They are currently touring 5 Luminaria.

The luminaria are inspired by pure forms of geometry & nature, Islamic architecture and modern architectural innovators such as Buckminster Fuller and Frei Otto.

"… takes Moorish architecture as its starting point and then, as Gaudí did in Barcelona a century or more ago, turns it into something highly organic and distinctly ambivalent. Not that Gaudí would have recognised it. What Parkinson has done is treat the inflated object as an immersive art experience, in which light, sound and architectural form combine.” Hugh Pearman, Sunday Times

Website: http://www.architects-of-air.com/

Here are some gloriously abstract pictures (and some portraits) I took (and one that Chris took of me) that might just one day become the inspirations for oil paintings or other artworks I may happen to create.

(Posted by request of my lovely friend Eunice :) )