MONSOON CLUB

CLIENT

Kennedy Center

ARCHITECT

Serie Architects

YEAR

2011

LOCATION

Washington D.C.

VISUALS

Daniel Schwartz

The Monsoon Club at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. features a large-scale, undulating, illuminated carpet hanging from the ceiling. Inspired by the beautiful light during torrential monsoon rains, the lighting and installation do a romantic dance. Its pattern is composed of vertically hung strings, the lengths of which determine the steepness and shape of the undulations. The illumination of this carpet creates fantastic effects when the vertical strings calculatedly interrupt light beams to cast a flood of variegated shadows on the floor.