在时间塔周围，五组投影机利用最先进的投影技术，将显示内容准确投射在不同大小、不同方位的屏幕之上，支撑了艺术家冰逸创作的跨媒体作品的完美呈现。同时时间塔内部的灯光照明配合外部的作品表演进行同一控制，使时间塔达到了美轮美奂的艺术效果。

这座时间塔是以光和信息流为载体的“光建筑”。以纯粹的光语言为创意理念，意在让建筑成为光的生命体，让时间和光这些难以固化的诗性体验和哲学命题成为可视和可知的全新生命体验。时间塔是集亭，台，楼，阁等各种传统建筑类型空间意象于一体的多媒体建筑，也是满足游，演，播、展等各种文化功能相互转化的综合性舞台。

每一位远观时间塔的人，每一位近赏时间塔的人，每一位走进时间塔的人，每一位登临时间塔的人都会获得不同的感受，都会对时间乃至生命有重新的认识。

 建筑事务所: 北京市建筑设计研究有限公司朱小地工作室

主创建筑师: 朱小地

设计团队：赵旭、马岳东、张涛

项目详细地址: 江苏省南京市建邺区双闸街道邺城路青奥村广场

项目完成年份:2019.12

建筑面积（平方米）:470 m²

摄影师:  张哲鹏，赵旭

其他参与者：

合作艺术家：冰逸

钢结构顾问：BIAD 4A7工作室

钢结构施工：南京宁盛钢结构工程有限公司

建筑灯光设计：光湖普瑞照明设计有限公司

灯光工程：龙腾照明集团

现场技术总监：郑雁冰

总策划：王小兰 

Tower of Time

 Tower of Time, the large-scale installation designed by the architect Zhu Xiaodi is the entity part of the artist Bingyi’s cross-media project in the 2020 Nanjing Youth Olympic Light and Art Festival. It appeared on the Nanjing Youth Olympic Cultural Axis on December 27, 2019 and became the symbol of the light festival.

Chinese people's understanding of time was not as simple as the Christian era. Through observing and comprehending the alternation of day and night, the cycle of four seasons, the ancient Chinese people established a time-space conception, paid more attention to the impact of environmental changes on human, initiated the inquiry of the meaning and value of life, and created plenty of poems that express the feelings of time, which have been handed down to the present and formed the cultural attribute and spiritual world of Chinese people.

To focus such a far-reaching and broad theme of time on an installation, the Tower of Time is formed by a spatial structure connected by several layers of constantly changing disks and the surrounding rising screens to present a three-dimensional, mutual concealing spatial relationship, and transform the concrete entity existence into an abstract expression of space. Under the sunshine in the day and the light at night, it produces rich light and shadow changes and dreamlike effects that provide the viewers a coherent viewing experience while moving and complete the translation from space to time. The Tower guides the viewers to look upward into the infinite sky to feel the existence and power of time and space.

Five sets of projectors of the most advanced projection technology are used around the Tower of Time to accurately project the display content on the screens in different sizes and orientations, which perfectly present the cross-media works created by artist Bingyi. At the same time, the lighting inside the Tower of Time is controlled simultaneously with the external performance, producing a fantastic artistic effect of the Time Tower. 

The Tower of Time is a "light building" with light and information flow as the carrier. With the pure light language as the creative idea, it aims to make the architecture become the life body of light, and translate time and light that are poetic, philosophical and difficult to be materialized into a visible and perceptible new life experience. The Tower of Time is a multi-media building that embodies the spatial images of various traditional building types, such as pavilion, terrace, tower, open hall, etc. It is also a comprehensive stage that integrates various cultural functions, such as tour, performance, broadcast, exhibition, etc.

 Each of the viewers standing far or near the Tower of Time will have different feelings and new understanding of time and life.

Architect’ Firm: BIAD -  ZXD ARCHITECTS

Lead Architects: Xiaodi ZHU

Design Team: Simon ZHAO, Yuedong MA, Tao ZHANG

Project location: Nanjing Youth Olympic park, Nanjing, Jiangsu

Completion Year: Dec 2019

Gross Built Area (square meters):  470 m²

Photo credits: Zhepeng ZHANG, Simon ZHAO

Other participants:

Cooperated artist: Bingyi

Steel Structure Consultant: BIAD - 4A7 Steel structure construction: Nanjing Ningsheng Steel Structure Engineering Co., Ltd. Architectural Lighting Design: Puri Lighting Design

Lighting engineering: Longteng Lighting Group Site Technical Director: Yanbing ZHENG General planner: Xiaolan WANG