The Uncontrollable Primeval Power of Structural Glass Sculptures Creates Facades Unknown Before

Meeli Kõiva-Vällo, FIE Meeli Vällo

Transparent facades, mediated by the artist, architect and engineer, create new and miraculous opportunities for a change in architecture. This is an aspiration to ignore the community around. These are the changes which, making use of the possibilities opened by transparent facades, step out through the see-through screen.

This is a new perception with glass, lateral-fibre optics, led-technology and other innovative technologies creating a world of reflections, where it takes a fraction of a moment to step from one reality into another. Glass facades and water surfaces act like natural mirrors and merge – glass changes into water and the water back into glass.

Between them there is nothing but hardly noticeable structure. You cannot always see the contents or the structure. The structure reflecting in the water together with light and glass facade. Sculptural and transparent structure is a uniting and organic link between different environments, but also a border that separates and differentiates them. It is only temporary artificial light that brings out new surfaces and textures hidden in the shade at the first sight. The water surface doubles the picture, turns the facade from head to foot. The combined effect creates a fantastic ensemble between architecture and the primeval power – water where the airy structure reflects different states, uniting them and breaking the harmony alternately.

Art is not some unfortunate after-effect neither in life or architecture; art is the power that directly affects both birth and existence, give a reason and life to architecture – and this way to the entire urban environment.

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The Authors

Mrs. Meeli Koiva-Vallo Glass designer/owner Fie Meeli Vallo Meeli Kõiva-Vällo is a glass and lighting artist whose work mainly consists of various light objects that vivify interiors in an original way with the combined effect of glass and light. An innovator ... Read more