(The Enchanting Night Garden, at the First Jerusalem Lighting Festival (June 10-16), Gan Habonim (Migdal David, Jerusalem Citadel
You are invited to enter the enchanting Night Garden and to take a stroll among its flowers, immersing yourself in a sensual delight of magical light, bright sounds and fragrant aromas…Powered by solar energy, the flowers are charged by sunlight during the day; and illuminated through energy-saving LED lights, at night.
The Garden demonstrates the importance and beauty of alternative energy, in protecting the environment, thus, safeguarding our future.
The project is in cooperation with the Israel Electric Corporation, which encourages the use of alternative energy for benefit of our environment.
This magical Garden offers a variety of flowers of different sizes and types of illumination: Giant Lotus Flowers, over four meters in diameter, intermittently opening and closing, and changing colors at a subtle pace; while delicate tulips, illuminated by one color of varying intensities; and masses of gently glowing dewdrop flowers, create an poetic ambience of tranquility, sensual beauty and pure serenity.
The Garden comes alive not only through the light and mechanical opening of the flowers, but also through the gentle music of the Hang – composed by two highly talented artists, Ravid Hang (GB) and Andy Isler (CH), who have contributed their amazing work toward completing this multi-sensual experience. You can also listen to these songs on their websites: www.ravidhang.com and www.musick.ch.
As O*GE Architects and InteractiveGallery, we are continuously exploring challenging issues in architecture & design; green and environmental protection; and social responsibility. We truly hope that you will enjoy this Garden and its magical atmosphere. Should you do so, please invite your family and friends to join in this experience; and do share impressions, feelings, photos and videos, on the internet, youtube, flickr, etc.
Together, let’s demonstrate that by using alternative energy, not only are we safeguarding our environment, but, we are also creating a poetic, magical experience
For further information, time-tables and location (and for a view of additional installations, please visit www.lightinjerusalem.org.il ).
Enchanting Night Garden: Technical Details
5 Lotus Flowers, with a diameter of 4.2m, which blossom every 2 minutes
8 Tulips, 2.25m in height
120 Dewdrop Flowers, 0.25m–1.20m in height
Four Solar Panels, which produce 720 watts per hour
156 LEDs of 1W-3W/24W
Credits
Concept, Design & Execution:
O*GE Architects – Merav (Salush) Eitan & Gaston Zahr
With Itzhak Salman, Haim Serfaty, Deri Plosner
Client
Israel Electric Corporation - www.iec.co.il
Ariel Production Company, Jerusalem – www.ariel-jer.org.il
LED Lighting
Eyal and Shachar from Yair Doram – Culture of Light – www.yairdoram.com
Solar Panels & Solar Installation
GreenTops - www.greentops.co.il
Music
Ravid Hang – Ravid Goldschmidt - www.ravidhang.com / www.quantumevolution.co.uk
Hangover – Hang Solo Improvisation – Andy Isler (Switzerland) - www.musick.ch
Performance
Adi Burstein, Daniel Rivakov
A Note of Personal Thanks:
We would like to personally thank the following people for all their help, passion and support–without them this project would never have come into being:
Itzchak Sal-man, for simply everything;
Aliza and Yarden Sal-man;
Haim Serfaty for all mechanics;
Ruth Kovacs and Iris from the Israel Electric Corporation for your trust in us;
Eduardo, Neta and the crew of Ariel;
Ravid Goldschmidt for the great RavidHang Soundtrack
Jenny Gosling and Jennifer Towhill from quantumevolution for granting kindly all permissions for public performance of Ravid’s music;
Andy Isler for the genius HangOver Soundtrack;
All the crew of GreenTops for providing and installing the solar panels,
Drora Kass for “finding the right words”
Thank you all so very much !!!
Merav (Salush) Eitan & Gaston Zahr
O*GE Architects
