name: art shadows

client: Marriott chain of hotels

status: 1 prize in the competition www.jovoto.com

location: worldwide

function : art concept

architect: Arina Ageeva

3D visualization: Arina Ageeva

3D animation: Arina Ageeva

year: 2011

The project presents an art concept in the form of shadow play. Here all the hotel surfaces serve as planes

for creating unusual art objects. Shadows appear in certain places forming unique shapes and images.

A system of analog and digital projectors can be operated

both mechanically, by means of mounting attachments, or with the help of digital technologies. This system

of projectors is supposed to produce shadows both inside the building and on its outer façade, sometimes

accompanied with sounds. In this way Marriott hotel interior spaces will be able to create a different

atmosphere depending on the circumstances. Installations should be made by local artists and can

vary from simple geometrical transformations to complicated shadow performances. Simple mechanical

lamps can be placed in hotel rooms as an ornament, while more sophisticated digital projectors can

be installed in lobbies, halls and dining rooms. Light and shadows can also react to movement.

In the daytime, devices installed on the windows of hotel rooms and common spaces can separate

light and shadow, thus telling small stories created by the artist. These devices are made of two

horizontal rails and a piece of transparent cloth with a non-transparent pattern on it.