Architect Ryuji Nakamura explores the effect of colours on solids with his mysterious installation Colorful. Using only paint and corrugated cardboard he produced a solid form with an ever-changing character.
‘Colour has various effects and the most remarkable ones are identification and assimilation. Colours are identified more clearly when using two or more, and when two or more similar ones exists at the same time. A solid, on the other hand, inevitably needs surfaces. A solid building, for instance, has many surfaces. What if we paint each surface of a solid with a certain rule? The primary form of the solid presented here is a grid. The solid is based on a 3x3mm frame, a size derived from the thickness of corrugated paper. The grid, with a frame pitch of 99 millimetres, has many surfaces but only in six directions. By giving each of the six surfaces a different colour, I expect that colour can tell us the characteristic of the grid’.