Description & Credits

VALO festival Architecture Design for Barbican Center

Valo Festival of Finnish culture consists of a multitude of events and installations throughout the Barbican building. The installations range from multimedia to textiles and the events range from Sibelius concerts to Finnish tango. The exhibitions consist of spatial structures Surfscapes, lighting installations, stands and cases, graphic elements, artworks and events. Surfscapes are the instruments for blending together the disparate elements of the Festival into a continuous mixture. They are large folded surfaces that create a sequence of spaces throughout the Barbican foyers, galleries and outdoor spaces as well. The Surfscapes constitute a continuous landscape where the different elments are freely distributed. The heterogeneous mixture of freely distributed elements delivers a highly varied range of spatial experiences as people flow through the exhibitions.

CREDITS

Principal Architects
Kivi Sotamaa & Markus Holmsten

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