Pop Star in Shanghai Reveals a Transcendental Way of Seeing the World

Designer Li Hao of One Take Architects presents the Pop Star installation located in an open field in Shanghai, China. Emerging from the desire to create a transcendental visual system, the large structure combines colored glass surfaces in an icosahedron shape (a polyhedron 20-sided convex), encouraging observers to see life in a whole new way. Pop star comes from the designers' intention to create a new transcendental visual system for humans. Through the deconstruction of space and the reconstruction of form, the structure generates a large volume that exceeds the scale of human visual reading, like a strange object. that came from another dimension of time and space.

Viewers can climb into the central area of the work to look out over the surrounding fields. They are immediately able to sense the association between the installation and Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendental theory: "the world is globalized in a dewdrop." Architect Li Hao said that on the inside he is quiet, dependent and maternal, while on the outside he is characterized as extremely oppressive, power-hungry and paternal. Between the two contradictory tensions, the dialectical relationship between movement and static is lost and the visual senses become an illusion. Structure emerges within this very paradoxical state of perception, which expresses a pure form of original power, free from text and narrative. , seeing the unknown and unlimited universe in a transcendental way.