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# Silo 468
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/silo-468/
- Published: 2012-10-29T15:00:50.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-28T23:39:23.000Z
- Description: Once again Finland is on our radar – and once again it's reclaiming urban spaces with a novel, illuminating twist.
- Author: Kat Chan
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15

As with [the urban farming Turn Table project](http://prote.in/feed/2012/05/turn-table?ref=protein.xyz) and the subterranean [Muru Pop Down in Tytyri](http://prote.in/feed/2012/08/muru-pops-down-in-tytyri?ref=protein.xyz), [Silo 468](http://vimeo.com/51983529?ref=protein.xyz) is a far cry from your typical pop-up fodder (luxury restaurants set within in old greasy-spoon cafés, for example).

Designed by Tapio Rosenius (of the Madrid-based [Lighting Design Collective](http://www.ldcol.com/?ref=protein.xyz)), Silo 468 sees a vast oil silo in Helsinki perforated by 2012 holes in the name of urban regeneration and illumination. Driven by bespoke swarm-modelled software, 1280 daylight-balanced LED domes and 450 movable steel mirrors respond to live climatological data including temperature, wind speed, and air clarity to create an organic, and thoroughly non-repetitive light show that interacts with its immediate natural environment.

As a concept, it's a pleasing and aesthetically satisfying application of live data viz. But Silo 468 also demonstrates a particularly pleasing interaction between artists and city planners, as well as between urban developers and the natural environment.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/3730/514e66cc-7ae9-4622-8d7b-2f78fb848538.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/3730/c0321336-c45f-4be7-a073-b56f9e67c2dc.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fc/71/fc716215-5729-441a-bd07-e2b50bc413b1/content/images/S3/protein/3730/933e908c-0b5b-4db6-ac16-bffbc75eb6cf.jpg)