PARALLELVISION — STUDIO IIII Berlin
Installation proposal · STUDIO IIII BERLIN · Art & Social Club

PARALLELVISION

Runs across the ceiling
Selected run · its own dowel heights
Totems · chrome plinth + sphere
Cloth
Water light
Floor plan overlay
Views
Setup
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Camera
WASD walk · QE down / up · shift run
drag to look · scroll to zoom · right-drag to pan
Technical sheet

Plan, section and build quantities

The room is traced from the Studio IIII floor plan: every wall, counter, column, stool and the rear staircase are placed where the drawing puts them. Absolute scale is calibrated to the 5.80 m dimension written on the bar counters, which gives a 13.4 × 7.6 m main hall and a 4.3 m rear bay for the DJ.

PlanTicks mark dowels at 1.83 m (6 ft) spacing.
Long section
What is confirmed from the drawing and what is assumed. Positions in plan are 1:1 with the drawing you sent (bar counters, stool rows, the two hall columns, the DJ booth and the two columns behind it, the wall ledges, the partition line between hall and rear bay, the staircase behind the rear wall). Assumed until measured on site: the scale (read from the "5.80" on the bar), a 4.2 m ceiling with the pipe grid at 3.95 m, and an opening in the partition between hall and DJ bay. The two hall columns go to the ceiling, so any run that crosses one must start after it or be cut around it — the page flags those runs in orange.

Silver organza

Sheer metallic organza — the softest of the three. Lit from behind it glows as a body of light; lit from the front it reads as brushed steel. Closest to the reference canopy. Transmits ~50 %.

Frosted plastic

Translucent PE / TPU sheeting off the roll. Diffuses the caustic into slow-moving clouds and hides the dowels behind it; the crispest scallop edge of the set. Transmits ~40 %.

Chrome mirror foil

Metallised mirror film or chrome vinyl. Opaque and specular: every ripple of the light becomes a reflection, so the foil itself appears to flow. Loudest at the waterfall.

ItemQtyNote
Fabric runs
Chrome dowels, Ø 33 mmSleeve or grommet-lace the fabric around each pipe; every dowel of every run has its own height (sliders above the viewport)
Hanger wiresØ 2 mm steel wire from pipe grid, two per dowel; bottom two dowels of each fall tensioned to floor plates
Grid clampsHalf-couplers on existing pipe grid — no new rigging points needed
Moving heads / LED washTwo per run, mounted on grid, projecting water gobo / animated caustic pattern; ice-blue to steel-white
Uplights at fallFloor-level RGBW bars between the fall and the rear wall, behind the DJ, so the waterfall is lit from behind and below
Lighting concept

The cloth is never lit flat. Each run gets two moving heads on the pipe grid carrying an animated water pattern (a rotating caustic gobo or a pixel-mapped LED wash) that drifts slowly from the entrance toward the DJ, so the whole ceiling seems to be under a shallow, moving surface of water.

The colour sits between ice-blue and steel-white and never fully saturates: the organza turns to liquid, the frosted plastic to fog, and the chrome foil to mercury. At the fall behind the DJ, floor bars push the same pattern up through the cloth from behind, so the waterfall is brightest at its base and the DJ is silhouetted against it.

The bar's existing warm downlights stay on at low level so the concrete columns and the counter keep their tone — the contrast between warm stone and cold water is the point of the room.