Gallery: Awesome, Immersive Exhibition Shows How Architecture Can Shape Your Senses
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Sensing Spaces is a new exhibition that explores how architecture can engage more than just our eyes.
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Kengo Kuma created a delicate matrix made from more than 3,000 curved bamboo sticks that spring up from the ground, forming an abstracted pyramid.
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From the outside, the piece from Chilean firm Pezo von Ellrichshausen appears to be a plain wooden box on top of four cylinders.
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It's made from pinewood.
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Hidden behind the cylinders are four spiral staircases that take visitors to the canopy of the gallery.
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This is meant to give visitors a totally new view of the gallery.
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Li Xiaodong, an architect from China, built a maze made from more than 21,000 sticks. Visitors are guided through the structure by illuminated floors that are meant to evoke a snowy path on a winter night.
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Grafton Architects constructed a concrete-like structure that explores how light and material work together.
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It's comprised of two rooms, light and dark.
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Eduardo Souto de Moura built two hulking concrete arches that mirror the gallery doorways.
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Diébédo Francis Kéré created two tunnel-like structures out of honeycomb plastic.
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This plastic material is often used in construction, but not often seen.
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Visitors are encouraged to stick straws into the plastic, creating a totally new facade.
