A public sculpture created by designer William Chan, with materials supplied by Pace Pallet Services, will feature at Vivid Sydney Festival 2012.
Palette of Urban Green is what William calls a “public art and energy- efficient light installation project” and it consists of six individual light sculptures made out of wooden pallets. The pallets are placed on top of each other and incrementally rotated to create towers that twist up to 5 metres in height.
The pallets, which are created from Australian grown plantation pine, have been manufactured by Pace Pallet Services of Wetherill Park. The company has previously also created specialised crates for unusual cargo including motorbikes and for architecture including complex-curved steel cladding for the Australian Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Palette of Urban Green will also showcase SenseIQ motion detector technology, which will interact and respond with visitors’ movement as they progress around the towers. This passive infra-red technology includes a soft-start module to create the ambient fading of movement.
