Edwin van der Heide and NOX/Lars Spuybroek (who already collaborated on the Son-O-House) are working on Whispering Garden in Rotterdam. The installation is based on the myths of Lorelei and the Sirens, luring the ships onto the rocks.

Wind properties (direction, force, duration) are translated into computer-generated female voices continuously singing vowels splitting into other vowels and creating a polyphonic forest of sound.

The intricate steel structure recalls Mucha‘s hair-arabesques and the faceted green glass panels shatter the light into many directions.

Whispering Garden is a synaesthetic node, short-circuiting all elements and forces that are present: connecting the wind to light, light to structure, structure to sound, sound to architecture, architecture to bodies, looping all the loops, making everything sensing everything, making everything sensuous.

Planned opening: end 2006.
Via designws.