TAM TAM: A Moving Temple, A Transformative Architectural Installation

Jul 19, 2025
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Updated: Sep 14, 2025

TAM TAM. Temple, Action, Movement by Alvisi Kirimoto reimagines the classical idea of a temple—not as a static monument, but as a living, breathing organism. The installation features six movable columns of varying diameters that invite visitors to reshape the space in real time, turning architecture into a shared, evolving experience.

As visitors shift the columns, the installation transforms: sometimes forming narrow corridors, other times opening into wide, communal zones. People aren’t just moving through the structure—they’re actively changing its form, relationships, and meaning.

As Junko Kirimoto explains:

“For us, architecture is not just about form, but about relationships and sensory experience.”

A White Canvas Full of Possibility

The installation’s entirely white design symbolizes a blank canvas—free of color, texture, or ornamentation—where movement, gesture, and voids become the true design elements. TAM TAM proposes, people respond, and the space is reinterpreted again and again. It’s architecture as dialogue rather than directive.

Built from Reuse, Designed for Renewal

TAM TAM doesn’t just express transformation through form—it embodies it through material. The entire structure is made from recycled plastic in collaboration with COREPLA, the Italian National Consortium for the Collection, Recycling, and Recovery of Plastic Packaging. After the exhibition, the installation may become an itinerant project, and its components will be recycled into new objects—giving it a second life, both conceptually and physically.