BLUE FOREST
DETROIT (MICHIGAN), U.S.A.

BLUE FOREST

DETROIT (MICHIGAN), U.S.A.

Project
Suspended forest canopy in an outdoor courtyard

Client
Nissan America, Creative Design Studio

Year
2002-2007

Status
Built

Inserted amidst Nissan’s design studios and boardrooms, this courtyard offers a long slot of open sky that unfurls like a picturesque parkway vanishing in the distance. We reinforced this impression by suspending a canopy of branches overhead, which casts ever-changing shadows on the ground. However, the sensations of travelling under a forested promenade are defied as the gaze turns upward: the branches are cast in fibreglass and painted sky-blue. Blue Forest thus challenges conventional preconceptions of nature, while intensifying the perception of light and colour.

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Surface
200 m2

Credits

1. François Farion, July 2006
2. François Farion, July 2006
3. François Farion, January 2007
4. François Farion, July 2006
5. François Farion, July 2006
6. CC+A (Claude Cormier), June 2006
7. Construction, CC+A (Annie Ypperciel), 2004
8. Before the installation, François Farion, June 2006
9. Inspiration, Eugen & Gretl Kedl, Le Canada en mille images, Les Éditions GID, 1999, p.83.
10. Concept, illustration: CC+A, December 2004
11. Model, CC+A, December 2004
12. Conceptual mage, CC+A, December 2004
13. Plan, CC+A, July 2006
14. Plan, CC+A, July 2006
Blue Forest in La Jolla, San Diego, François Farion, mai 2010