A kinetic ceiling of mirror-polished steel leaves — a shoal of light suspended over a bank lobby, drifting on the room's own air.
01 — The Sketch
The Sketch
The brief asked for movement without machinery: a living ceiling that responds to the building, not a motor. We drew the piece as a field of individually suspended leaves on a flowing spline, each one a .125″ 316-stainless blank profiled and mirror-polished, hung on its own cable so the whole shoal reads as one wave from the floor.
02 — The Sweat
The Sweat
Every leaf was cut, formed, and polished by hand to a flawless mirror, then hung to a rigging plan that placed hundreds of suspension points to the millimeter. Concealed LED washes the field so the steel catches warm light by day and glows by night — a 14′-6″ span tuned leaf by leaf until the wave broke exactly right.
- 01 Spline + rigging plan
- 02 Leaf profiling
- 03 Mirror polishing
- 04 LED integration
- 05 Suspended install
03 — The Reveal
The Reveal
From the lobby floor it reads as a single shimmering current overhead — hundreds of hand-polished pieces moving as one, turning a ceiling into weather.
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Kamani Pōhaku