Jeppe Hein

Born in Denmark in 1974, Jeppe Hein works out of Berlin and Copenhagen.

Jeppe Hein’s works are fun. One of his installations is a labyrinth made from mirrors that confuse the viewer's visual and spatial perception, transforming the surrounding scenery through mirrored reflections while at the same time melting into it as the reflections provide camouflage. Another work is made from variously shaped benches that resemble playground equipment, some slanted, others twisted. Yet another presents the mysterious spectacle of a flame crowning a jet of water. In another water sculpture, water columns form labyrinths. When people enter, the walls of water sense their movements and react by rising and falling, luring them from one room to another and trapping them within the fountain.

As an artist, Hein is fascinated by how communication between his work and the viewer plays out in different ways under the influence of cultural differences.

text by SCAI

Parkour...freerunner..experience existing building

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new york street

"it is so quiet. no kids around there.
the people relationship is decreasing.
nieghborhood has been changed..."

fastest hide n seek

Really no place to hide

Hide Chair designed by Margaret Huang & Li Yi-Hsien

Motivated by the popular game of ‘hide and seek,’ designers Margaret Huang & Li Yi-Hsien are out there with a functional piece of furniture that will suit all modern residential and commercial apartments. Rightly hailed as the ‘Hide Chair,’ the seating can be used as both a chair and a hiding cocoon. The useful chair provides a private zone to escape the hustle and bustle of the workplace. The enclosure of the chair is made of wool felt that is not just soft but also helpful in sound absorption and air ventilation, allowing a clean and healthy environment. Kids will simply love it as a hiding place for their favorite game. Not too bad a place for meditation either!

http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/hide-chair-gives-a-private-zone-even-in-the-crowded-workplace/

site: Lillington Gardens. plan, 3d & photos

concept: hide and seek

After those day to collect all documents i researched, i figured out that play has seven rhetorics, progress, fate, power, identity, the imagination, the self and frivolity. How to use those ideas to practise into space? How to allow people interaction with space? i came out with a game, hide and seek, which i really like in my childhood. "Hide" means find a secret place and put your body in weird angle to conceal. "Seek" means to find it. The exciting part is someone gets close to you when you see through a small gap; you will image everything and see the silhouettes to linger.
Try to use this play game to transform into my project creates a small space and provides hint to seek.

Based on the way of seeing, dislocating space to confuse people's eye...you can see as following models...At one point of view, the shape of the model look like a cube, but when you see from other side that will be other shapes combined together.

The other testing models are using different layers to overlap. The main idea is trying to use easy form to dismember the shapes. To create the gaps..