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Red Silk of Fate - The Shrine

Napp Studio & Architects x Sputniko

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Set Design
5.70
5.42
5.94
5.50
5.64
Mijail Gutierrez
Mijail Gutierrez Principal and Design Director at Perkins and Will
The conceptual approach is interest...
5
3.5
5
5
4.63
Christophe Penasse
Christophe Penasse Cofounder at Masquespacio
5
5
5.85
5
5.21
Hongchao Wang
Hongchao Wang Creative Director and Cofounder at Benwu Studio
5
5.82
5
5
5.21
Kim Tchai
Kim Tchai Founder and CEO at Tchai International
5
4.3
4.36
4.08
4.44
Geoffrey Timmer
Geoffrey Timmer Creative director at Colliers
6
6
6.5
5
5.88
Raquel Machado
Raquel Machado Senior Design Associate at M Moser Associates
5
4
5
4
4.5
Miriam Zuurbier
Miriam Zuurbier Associate Partner and Creative Director at TANK
5
4
6
4
4.75
Haijie Hu
Haijie Hu Cofounder and Creative Director at VAVE Studio
6.03
4.16
6.01
4.49
5.17
Güray Oskay
Güray Oskay Director of Architectural Design at ATÖLYE
6
4
5.5
5
5.13
Madhubala Ayyamperumal
Madhubala Ayyamperumal Design Experience Leader at Gensler
The idea of cave lights is extremel...
6.79
3.51
6.71
5
5.5
Rosha Ehsan
Rosha Ehsan Head of Design at Gastronomica Middle East
An impressive take on post pandemic...
8.77
7.54
8.59
9.03
8.48
Elliot March
Elliot March Cofounder at MAWD
I would be curious about the resear...
5.94
4.88
7.04
5.93
5.95
Kamna Malik
Kamna Malik Design Curator & Content Strategist at Kamna Malik
5
5
5
5
5
Comments
Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
GRAND JURY VOTES
Shortlisted - Set Design of the Year
5.76
5.44
5.95
5.50
5.66
Mijail Gutierrez
Mijail Gutierrez Principal and Design Director at Perkins and Will
The conceptual approach is interest...
5
3.5
5
5
4.63
Christophe Penasse
Christophe Penasse Cofounder at Masquespacio
5
5
5.85
5
5.21
Hongchao Wang
Hongchao Wang Creative Director and Cofounder at Benwu Studio
5
5.82
5
5
5.21
Kim Tchai
Kim Tchai Founder and CEO at Tchai International
5
4.3
4.36
4.08
4.44
Geoffrey Timmer
Geoffrey Timmer Creative director at Colliers
6
6
6.5
5
5.88
Raquel Machado
Raquel Machado Senior Design Associate at M Moser Associates
5
4
5
4
4.5
Miriam Zuurbier
Miriam Zuurbier Associate Partner and Creative Director at TANK
5
4
6
4
4.75
Haijie Hu
Haijie Hu Cofounder and Creative Director at VAVE Studio
6.03
4.16
6.01
4.49
5.17
Güray Oskay
Güray Oskay Director of Architectural Design at ATÖLYE
6
4
5.5
5
5.13
Madhubala Ayyamperumal
Madhubala Ayyamperumal Design Experience Leader at Gensler
The idea of cave lights is extremel...
6.79
3.51
6.71
5
5.5
Rosha Ehsan
Rosha Ehsan Head of Design at Gastronomica Middle East
An impressive take on post pandemic...
8.77
7.54
8.59
9.03
8.48
Elliot March
Elliot March Cofounder at MAWD
I would be curious about the resear...
5.94
4.88
7.04
5.93
5.95
Kamna Malik
Kamna Malik Design Curator & Content Strategist at Kamna Malik
5
5
5
5
5
Client
deTour 2021
Floor area
300 ㎡
Completion
2021
Project Manager
Fabric Designer
Masaya Kushino
Sound Designer
Kaito Sakuma
Contractor
Hattrick Creative
Photographer
Jimmy Ho
Videographer
120FPS
VR Photographer
IMC
Project Manager
Fabric Designer
Sound Designer

The red silk line that connects two people who are destined to be together, appears across many Chinese, Japanese and Korean mythologies.  The delicate silk line symbolises the fragility of love at times. 

On the other hand, such a thin line represents the passion in love that is powerful and irresistible. Through the genetically engineered red silk containing Oxytocin (known as the socially bonding, love-hormone) invented by Artist Sputniko! (Hiromi Ozaki) with Professor Hideki Sezutsu from the University of Tokyo, the Asian Mythology of Red String of Fate is recreated in the form of a roof-scape that references an Asian shrine. 

The shrine renders a mysterious and sacred setting that echoes the Asian myth of the red silk, which usually involves the play of a deity figure e.g. Yue Lao. The shrine, being one of the most common typologies of spiritual space for worshipping and blessing, is where faiths, intentions, emotions and wishes intertwine.  The team also worked with Japanese designer Masaya Kushino on the fabric design. 

The roof-scape is made of silk fabric with the red silk (together with other colored engineered silk) embroidered onto the seemingly endless rolls of silk fabric. The embroidery only reveals itself under blue (moon) light, and its colours are only visible through the lenses offered inside the shrine.  

The glowing pattern symbolises the flower of the night-blooming cereus (月下美人), which blossoms briefly and beautifully under the moonlight.   “Red Silk of Fate” invites the audience to contemplate love and bonding in a spiritual setting, especially in the age of the pandemic where social interaction and bonding have become scarce worldwide.  

The work also invites the audience to imagine the futures of biotechnologies, where humans could soon be creating living things, which we believed to only exist in the mythical, magical worlds.