Kulflux: Glowing Floating Island, Vilnius (2024)
Week-long workshop intervention transforms forty inverted IBC containers into temporary floating architecture for Vilnius’s Neris river. Students assemble modular grid in shallow water near classical architecture riverbank. Positional reversal shifts liquid storage units into air-containing buoyancy structures.
Fluorescent TL tubes insert directly into plastic tank interiors’ surplus office lighting repurposed as internal illumination in multiple colors: green, blue, red, amber. Wire cage framework protects glass tubes while diffusing colored light outward. Daytime white cubic matrix transforms through nocturnal activation into glowing constellation.
Five-day timeline spans material accumulation through post-workshop disassembly. The installation exemplifies function-shifting principle: existing industrial engineering redirected through positional inversion and contextual relocation. Container origins remain recognizable despite functional transformation.
