Leong Leong’s TOPO Installation for Ford at Sight Unseen OFFSITE . Sightunseen.com said: . Amidst the whirlwind of exhibitions, installations, trade shows, lectures, and parties that make up the ever-expanding NYCxDesign festival, a dedicated place to relax and regroup is the one thing that’s usually absent. But design-lovers seeking a moment of calm this week will find just that in TOPO, the immersive sound bath installation designed by Leong Leong for Ford that’s featured at our third annual Sight Unseen OFFSITE show, open today through Monday. Inspired by the experience of driving through landscapes in the Ford Edge, TOPO is a space to chill out, lounge around, and tune in to a meditative experimental soundtrack created by the designers with the engineers at ARUP. . The interior of TOPO itself is a soft landscape of six-inch-thick, CNC-cut foam massage rollers fastened to an underlying wooden support structure. Each foam module has a unique contour, based directly off of an elaborate cut sheet digitally drawn up by the architects. When combined, the clusters of rollers stand at differing heights to create an undulating topography defined by three major pinnacles that, when viewed through the installation’s mirrored walls, evoke a sense of boundlessness. “We tried to create a form that was ambiguous enough that you could interpret it however you want to use it — lay in it, sit in it,” says firm partner Dominic Leong. “So it’s this open-ended shape that allows for different modes of interaction.” It was also important to the designers that TOPO was big enough to facilitate communal and individual experiences simultaneously, a key concept in the design process behind Ford’s vehicles. “The idea of having these three peaks created three enclaves so you can have multiple people in there or you can have a more personal space,” says Leong. . #ford #immersive #immersive #interior #interiordesign #room #hills #space #relax #regroup #recharge #chill #chillout #design #creativity #imagaination