Reflection becomes a display strategy. A field of compact, cellular podiums gathers into a reflective landscape, inviting close inspection from every side. As visitors move around the objects, surfaces shift between transparency and reflection, altering how the work is revealed and reframed. Models appear, multiply, and fragment, producing a presentation that is never fixed to a single viewpoint.

Created as part of the 2012 Architectural League Prize exhibition, the installation presents five podiums containing models that represent a range of strategies explored through the studio’s work. Display operates as an active system rather than a neutral support. Each podium is capped with one-way mirrored acrylic and illuminated from below, allowing light to mediate the relationship between viewer and object.

As circulation changes, the optical behavior of the podiums shifts. From certain angles, the caps become transparent, offering direct views of the models inside. From others, they turn reflective, mirroring their surroundings while multiplying the models at irregular angles. The interior surfaces remain consistently reflective, producing a kaleidoscopic effect that collapses depth and orientation. This instability encourages continuous movement, with understanding emerging through reflection, repetition, and the continual renegotiation of what is seen. The podiums function simultaneously as containers and lenses—framing the work while transforming it through perception.

The installation was exhibited alongside work by the other winners of the Architectural League Prize, including Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio del Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez, and Diego Ricalde (MMX Studio); Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular); Sean Lally (WEATHERS / Sean Lally); Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim (STPMJ); and Koji Tsutsui (Koji Tsutsui & Associates), together presenting a diverse range of experimental approaches grounded in spatial thinking.