The expression "safe as houses" refers to the permanence and protection of one's home. As a way of playing with this notion, a residential tower will be treated with light, making it appear impermanent by night.
For the installation, Concord Adex offered the use of Panorama, a 28-storey, elliptically shaped tower, which will be glazed but not yet occupied in October.
A construction beacon will be placed in each room of the tower, softly flooding it with pulses of light and with the flashing beacon head clearly visible through each window. The 600 beacons will strobe in asynchronous fashion. The result will be a tower that sparkles with an ever so slowly shifting pattern of light, visually dissolving the glazed façade and challenging our preconceptions of architecture as solid and unchanging.
