Sustainability is at the forefront of our exhibition design – not just in resourceful efficiencies but also in maximizing meaning with restraint. This immersive installation is constructed around the skeletal framework of a traditional greenhouse. Traxon’s innovative fixtures and mounting systems integrate light with the structure. Reflective surfaces allow for maximal impact while using only a portion of the actual resources and materials. Visitors are invited to engage and interact with the piece by walking through and observing from both internal and external vantage points.

Recyclable, lightweight paper is manipulated to create a topography embedded within the luminous mesh, revealing each “seed” of light as one walks around the installation. The freestanding installation fits within the constraints of a 15x15x10 ft space with a limited material budget. As amateur urban gardeners, we challenged ourselves to incorporate a secondary theme centered around nature, regrowth, and resilience. The primary structure is a repurposed skeletal frame of a traditional greenhouse while recycled paper was cut, by the design team by hand, and rolled to create a topography of extruded petal forms tension held within the luminous mesh. Uniquely tailored programming of the media lighting system enhances the concept of cyclical life and vegetation as the “Seeds of Light” germinate, bloom, nourish, and reconnect us to the Earth.

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