KOYORI TOWER
Program_Art Installation | Location_Lucca, Italy | Exhibition_Lucca Biennale Cartasia | Schedule_2022.8 | Area_10 sqm | Photo_KAD
Koyori Tower is a meshed truncated cone-shaped tower assembled with koyori sticks.
The word “koyori” is a traditional Japanese paper-based rope rolled into a thin piece and is often used in traditional celebrations.
In Japanese culture, the attempt to roll a white paper into a koyori is a moment to purify the suffering and a ritual for a better future.
Inspired by the tradition, we are designing Koyori Tower to be a tower of prayer. We design the construction methods simple.
For this design, we use 5,800 sheets of paper to construct.
We roll the white printing papers and combine them into 3-meters long koyori sticks.
By rolling paper into koyori, it becomes durable to vertical force but not to horizontal force.
To resist horizontal force, we weave 480 koyori sticks into 3 diagonal grid layers to add more stability so each stick can support each other.
The final piece to construct the tower is the koyori strings.
We used paper-based string to tie and brace each stick.
The act of rolling paper into koyori inherits an individual’s wish into each koyori stick.
We weave those wishes together so each prayer can support each other and transform them into a tower of prayer.
PAPER DUNE
| Program | Art Installation |
| Location | Lucca, Italy |
| Exhibition | Lucca Biennale Cartasia |
| Schedule | 2022.8 |
| Area | 10 sqm |
| Photo | KAD |
Koyori Tower is a meshed truncated cone-shaped tower assembled with koyori sticks.
The word “koyori” is a traditional Japanese paper-based rope rolled into a thin piece and is often used in traditional celebrations.
In Japanese culture, the attempt to roll a white paper into a koyori is a moment to purify the suffering and a ritual for a better future.
Inspired by the tradition, we are designing Koyori Tower to be a tower of prayer. We design the construction methods simple.
For this design, we use 5,800 sheets of paper to construct.
We roll the white printing papers and combine them into 3-meters long koyori sticks.
By rolling paper into koyori, it becomes durable to vertical force but not to horizontal force.
To resist horizontal force, we weave 480 koyori sticks into 3 diagonal grid layers to add more stability so each stick can support each other.
The final piece to construct the tower is the koyori strings.
We used paper-based string to tie and brace each stick.
The act of rolling paper into koyori inherits an individual’s wish into each koyori stick.
We weave those wishes together so each prayer can support each other and transform them into a tower of prayer.
