The gobo projection Flower Explosion | Mandarin covers the historic architecture like an ornamental light image, placing the building in a new, temporary context.

The floral motifs unfold as a static light composition and enter into a dialogical exchange with the structure, rhythm, and materiality of the façade. Window axes, cornices, and architectural details are not covered up, but deliberately incorporated and highlighted by light. The result is a projection that respects the existing building while reinterpreting it.

The work moves at the interface between light art and architectural staging. The floral imagery symbolizes new beginnings, vitality, and transience, while contrasting with the austerity and permanence of the historic building fabric. The reduction to light and form creates a calm, atmospheric intervention that adds a poetic dimension to the location.

 

With Flower Explosion | Mandarin, Immersive Light Factory creates a subtle, immersive light experience that transforms the Mandarin Oriental Palace, Lucerne into a temporary lightscape during the festival and invites visitors to perceive the façade in a new way – as a carrier of light, ornament and mood.