"Drawing Architecture Studio has completed a large-scale, site-specific rolling ball installation in Chengdu, China, commissioned by Taikoo Li Chengdu, an open-air, low-rise commercial and cultural district in the city center. Installed for the holiday season in a central plaza facing a thousand-year-old temple, the installation titled Fun Palace transforms the site into an immersive landscape of movement, combining five looping ball-track systems with five sculptural architectural forms."
"The Fun Palace installation occupies a plaza framed by ginkgo trees and a shallow reflecting pool, a space that becomes the setting for a temporary artwork each holiday season. Drawing Architecture Studio fills the site with overlapping tracks that weave around five miniature buildings, creating a layered environment that visitors can walk through, observe, and inhabit. Each building functions both as an independent sculpture and as a key node within the kinetic system, redirecting the rolling balls and altering their speed as they pass through."
Fun Palace is a site-specific seasonal public installation in a central Chengdu plaza commissioned by Taikoo Li Chengdu and positioned facing a thousand-year-old temple. Five looping ball-track systems weave around five sculptural miniature buildings, creating an immersive, walkable kinetic landscape that visitors can enter, observe, and inhabit. Overlapping tracks extend into surrounding ginkgo tree clusters and interact with a shallow reflecting pool, visually integrating architecture and landscape. Colorful metal balls and custom benches encourage pause, watching, and participation. The project draws on Aldo Rossi’s idea of architecture as collective memory and channels the playful spirit of Luna Luna, framing architecture as a tool for joy and everyday wonder.
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