Protein° favourite, James Turrell has just finished an amazing project for Richard Baker, President/COO of National Realty & Development Corporation in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Baker was so eager to have Turrell display his work that he constructed a special building to accommodate the installation, a structure on Baker’s own residence known as the “party barn,” designed by architect Walt Smith of Skidmore Owings and Merrill.
In the basement of the barn are various rooms used for exercise and relaxation – pool, workout room, bath – all fiber optic illuminated using Martin FiberSource CMY 150 illuminators.
In the pool area, each end of the space is framed in fiber optic with submerged 3M HL solid core fiber illuminating the pool itself. Also, Color Kinetics LED Icove lighting backlights LCD glass windows and a lower band of LED lighting encircles the room. The staircases are lit with fiber optic endlight, and in the bathroom fiber optic lightbars illuminate a glass sink. A custom fiber harness even outlines the showerhead.
Nice.
