Design studio Sosolimited has unveiled a new LED-based interactive sculpture called Colorspace in the upper lobby of the 200 Clarendon Street skyscraper (formerly called the Hancock Tower) in Boston, MA. The work was commissioned by Boston Properties, which owns and manages the building. Linear pendants are vertically suspended in what the creators call a “wave-like fashion” along a wall. Visitors can send a text message to the solid-state lighting (SSL) art project and the system will interpret the message and create a dynamic interpretation of the message that is displayed for ten minutes.

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　　The LED lighting installation is creative in form and in how the interactive feature operates. The 70 pendants that comprise the sculpture were custom developed for the project. Each pendant is powered via the suspension cable with an LED light engine located in the cap at the top of the pendant.

　　The pendants were manufactured using an acrylic made by Okalux and that acrylic acts as a light guide. The acrylic includes what Sosolimited called microscopic particles that deflect light, resulting in uniform illumination along the length of the pendant. We covered light guide technology a number of times over the years, generally relating to planar lighting. Rambus, for example, has offered such technology on a licensing basis. And Cree has developed its own light guide technology.