Kaleidoscope in Tianshui
SAKO Architects created a playful and colorful design for Kaleidoscope in Tianshui, China.
This is a kindergarten built in a small provincial town. 438 pieces of 10 different colors of colored glass were used for the windows and railings. The white exterior walls have numerous windows in the shape of local yao-tung arches. Colorful shadows cast into the nursery during the day and light leaks out at night, creating a lovely appearance.
Sunlight from the glass roof penetrates and reflects off the colored glass of the balustrade, creating shades of various colors. The shadows repeatedly expand and contract as the colors overlap each other and become different colors, or as they move from the vertical to the horizontal plane. The entire atrium is like a mighty kaleidoscope that is constantly changing from moment to moment.
Design: SAKO Architects
Photography: CreatAR Images
