Above Horizon, Goldstein Skyspace




The Goldstein Skyspace was original envisioned by owner James Goldstein to be a collaboration between Artist James Turrell and Architect John Lautner. Unfortunately Lautner passed away before the project came to be. An apprentice of Lautner, Architect Duncan Nicholon took over the Architects role in collaboration with the Artist James Turrell to complete the project in 2004.

 

The location of the art piece (Goldstein Skyspace aka Above Horizon) is in the Beverly Hills, Los Angeles area on a steep hillside in the middle of a property that is not adjacent to a road. This difficult building site made the logistics of the construction a challenge for the Contractor Bruce Ostermann and Architect Duncan Nicholson. The building is a concrete shell structure on a caisson foundation designed with Structural Engineer Andrew Nasser. The concrete finish was chosen for its longevity and for its relation to the existing Lautner Sheats Goldstein Residence built in 1963,



The Skyspace has two operable openings the central oculus, and the corner window. The room is preprogrammed by the Artist James Turrell for shows at dawn and dusk. The room has embedded radiant heating beneath the concrete pebble finished floor. The room is lined with 5,000 LEDs in alcoves not directly visible by viewers. When the LEDs are activated they wash the room with abundance of colored light amplified by the smooth white plaster finished walls. When the windows are opened and the preprogrammed lighting begins a slow transitioning color sequence centering on the view of the sky the show begins. All previously perceived notions of the color of the sky changes before your eyes and viewers are left to reconceive what has always been assumed.




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