The London Design Festival is currently in motion until Sunday 22nd September, celebrating design in London and with the international creative community.
Another thing in motion is the beautiful art installation “The Wind Portal” created by Lebanese designer Najla El Zein for the event. “The Wind Portal” is made up of 5,000 paper windmills installed in an imposing 8 foot doorway inside the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This integrated wind system is a walk-through installation aimed at making visitors feel, hear and be aware of the action of transitioning through two spaces. The installation aims to define an exaggeration of a specific sensorial moment that each one of us experiences throughout our daily lives – trying to grasp and emphasise on common emotions and senses that are often forgotten.
The architectural shape of “The Wind Portal” works as a “trompe d’oeil” effect, which according to the angle you are positioned from, tricks you into seeing the paper windmill gate as being opened or closed.
The installation blends in different technologies and materials such as hand-folded paper windmills, hand sculpted wooden joints, 3d printed clips, and a complex wind and light computerised system. With images as stunning as this, I’m confident the actual installation would blow me away.
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