A videomapping 'made in Mexico' illuminated the largest building in the world

The founders of the company AVA Visual Arts and Animation, projected on the façade of the largest building in the world located in Dubai, the Burj Khalifa, his videomapping project 'Luna'.

Pedro Narváez and Emma López, founders of the company AVA Visual Arts and Animation, illuminated throughout the month of April the Burj Khalifa, the largest building in the world located in Dubai with its videomapping project Moon, which won second place in '1 Minute Projection Mapping', Asia's largest videomapping competition.

Initially, the piece Luna was created for the competition held in Japan but was readapted to adapt and project on the architecture of the Burj Khalifa.

Luna is an audiovisual production with a duration of two minutes, inspired by feminine energy, the invisible forces that guide the cycles of the planet, birth, reproduction and death. It is a garden that blooms at night, changing shape with each cycle, Crystals, flowers, diamonds and pearls that are stitches of light in the dark.

For its projection in the Burj Khalifa that, in addition to being the largest building in the world also has the largest Led screen, the artists intervened 33.000 cubic meters of surface, which meant working with more than 5.000 pixels and 357.000 Leds, with 70 km of cabling and two of fiber optics.

With more than 10 years dedicated to animation, Emma López and Pedro Narváez learned to make videomapping in the Middle East, thanks to his participation in a large project of a Lebanese-Dutch company.

with Moon, the past 28 of April they obtained the second place in the Asian meeting where they participated 136 proposals of 39 countries and for which the architecture of the building of the Huis Ten Bosch park in Sasebo was intervened, Nagasaki.

Videomapping involves transforming architecture with light. According to Emma Lopez, "by large-scale projection of animated content, tailor-made for the building, you can create a whole series of optical illusions that transform architecture, all seasoned with music, that generates an experience".

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