Artist makes beautiful mirror-covered house in Swiss Alps
Last updated on: 23 April,2021 09:46 am
Artist makes beautiful mirror-covered house in Swiss Alps
SWITZERLAND (Dunya News) – An American artist has constructed a mirror-covered beautiful house in Swiss Alps. Owner of the house, Doug Aitken said, “I saw Mirage as a human-scale lens that the viewer would enter into, and in the process, they would become the work.”
“However, it has also caused a lot of problems for local birds and is now being termed as a ‘huge trap’. The structure is quite striking to the eye but can easily be missed due to its reflective surface,” he told.
Some of the environmentalists are not happy with the shiny structure, as they thing that the house can cause serious injuries to small birds.
Aitken told, “In building Mirage Gstaad installation teams worked with Vogelwarte Sempach (Swiss Bird Protection Society) and added horizontal black lines installed every three centimetres on the facade to counter the distraction from the reflective surfaces for migrating and breeding birds, and to make the building visible to them.”