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FUORI SALONE blue gel bulb

an installation brings a different materiality and experience into the courtyard of the Ca Granda

installed

2008

location

Ca' Granda, Milan

client

Interni Magazine / Fuori Salone

collaborators

Keisuke Nibe, Claudia Brunelli, project lead / Technogel, R&D support / thank you dear Mel Chin for the hand-perspective sketch!

photography:

Andres Otero; Marino Ramazzotti

awards

concept & vision

our installation in the Ca Granda courtyard of the University of Milano is a green-energy Gel Bulb, a floating blue-glowing soft structure lit by LED and powered by solar panels

design & architecture

our bulb is a cube lifted off the ground, supported by a scaffold and attached to the historic building, a luminous intruder or parasite within the old courtyard

program & use

entering from below, the experience of the viewer is immersive and includes the sensorial aspect of the soft surfaces of the cube, completely lined with soft blue gel and lit by blue light

impact & significance

ephemeral, soft, glowing, a spaceship and a construction site, colorful, surprising, playful

Dec 12, 2025

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WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND