Studio edition, 2026. Website, interaction, art direction, motion
TEMPLUMNº 01
A templum was the piece of sky an augur cut out with his staff, before reading what crossed it.
Concept
TEMPLUM
Year
2026
Scope
Website, interaction, art direction, motion
Live
Brief
The studio’s own piece, made to compete: a statement in web interaction and graphic design, where type and layout take on found photographs and remake them by cutting, sequencing and grading. The subject climbs from modern buildings read as temples, to the street, to empty rooms, and at last to the sky alone.
Idea
One gesture: every photograph arrives cut into strips, and each cut opens the way its picture runs. Four books climb from the ground to the sky, Ligne, Rue, Vide and Ciel, and the type climbs with them, Helvetica Neue from Bold to Medium Italic, Light and UltraLight. Black and white all the way up; colour returns only in the sky.
Made
103 photographs in four grades, in French, English and Chinese, in one HTML file with no framework. On the last page visitors draw their own templum on the night sky, and the site lifts it out, dates it, and lists how long they spent in each book.
1.1The film for juries, 16:9. On a phone, the upright cut of 31 seconds.
2.1The cover, the Salk Institute, settling strip by strip as it reaches the middle of the screen.
ILigneConstruireOù commence un lieu ?
IIRuePasserCombien de temps dure un instant ?
IIIVideQuitterQue garde une pièce quand on la quitte ?
IVCielDemeurerQu’est-ce qui demeure ?
Neuf escaliers hélicoïdaux, vus d’en haut.
D’après la méthode de Bernd et Hilla Becher : même cadrage, même lumière, même distance.
Chronologie. Une graduation par an.
1959197019801990200020102017
1959Guggenheim
1965Salk Institute
1968Neue Nationalgalerie
1982Barbican
1989Église de la Lumière
2000Turbine Hall
2004Central Library, Seattle
2010Teshima · MAXXI
2011Stadtbibliothek
2012Heydar Aliyev Center
2016Oculus
2017Louvre Abu Dhabi
Cinquante-huit ans séparent la rampe du Guggenheim de la coupole du Louvre Abou Dabi.
5.1Rue opens on its door, then the instants, one after another.
CielIV UltraLight
VideIII Light
RueII Medium Italic
LigneI Bold
Paper#F2F2F0
Ink#0B0B0B
Dust#E7E3DB
Sky#E4E8EC
Signal#FF2A00
6.1Helvetica Neue, one family in four weights; Inter Tight where Helvetica Neue is not installed.
7.1Three windows, exposed a step at a time.
Ce qui reste.Inventaire, pièce par pièce.
01Une chaise, contre un mur bleu.
02Une chaise, sous la lucarne.
03Un fauteuil, dans le noir.
04Une porte entrouverte.
05Un couloir, jusqu'au fond.
06Trois fenêtres.
07Une fenêtre en arc.
08Une flaque de lumière, au sol.
09Un bassin, sans eau.
10Des rangées de sièges.
11Un balcon effondré.
12Une chaise, près de la fenêtre.
8.1The sky falls onto the room, strip by strip; then the horizons.
8.2Horizons, laid one above another.
10.1A templum drawn on the night sky, and the time spent in each book.
Adam Bignell Agnieszka Stankiewicz Alexandra Nicolae Luna Wang Denis Kovalev Marius George Oprea Georgi Kalaydzhiev Aimar Gallardo Ollie Singleton Andrea G Spencer Davis Ralf Knüfer Barbora Vrzáková Ismail Bashiri James Kirkup Matthew Adish (AJ) Victor Lu Rémy Penet Nicolas Hoizey Ludde Lorentz Wolfgang Weiser Carlos Torres Andrea De Santis Massimo Virgilio Monica Sauro Jorgen Hendriksen masahiro miyagi Simon L José Duarte Jackie Alexander VD Photography Prince Patel Nice M Nshuti Mehrpouya H jesse williams Gabriel Almanzar Amir Arabshahi CHUTTERSNAP Photoholgic Zanyar Ibrahim Ümit Yıldırım Roma Kaiuk Ruslan Zaplatin Jorg Karg Vitaliy Shevchenko Jack Gibson Arthur Hutterer Donny Jiang Lukáš Lehotský Eli Nir Craig Whitehead Sebastian Herrmann Miguel Alcântara higor marques Vitalii Khodzinskyi Roman Navarro Peter Herrmann Jean-Jacques Halans Elimende Inagella Tommy Bond Serge Le Strat Paul Lichtblau Jaz. Mine Vagelis Karathanasis Blogging Guide Vera Gorbunova Hans Eiskonen nulo Vidar Nordli-Mathisen Denny Müller Vladimir Mokry SungGeun Hwang Sven Brandsma Adrian Infernus César Couto Ashley Whitlatch Dave Hoefler Alef Morais Kym MacKinnon Melyna Valle Manuel Will Martin Brechtl Logan Voss Jake Weirick Wolfgang Hasselmann Marcus Dall Col Zac Cain Jack Cohen Ryan Hutton Nick Fewings Clark Gu Owen Harding Jamie Kern Joshua Kettle John Forson Amy Rollo Matheus Oliveira
11.1In the order of the books: Ligne in Bold, Rue in Medium Italic, Vide in Light, Ciel in UltraLight.
Colophon
Typeface
Helvetica Neue in four weights: Bold, Medium Italic, Light, UltraLight. Inter Tight where Helvetica Neue is not installed.
Grades
Cold silver, hard black and white, faded print, colour.
Photographs
103 views by 98 photographers on Unsplash, recropped, regraded and sequenced. Author portrait from the author’s own collection.
Languages
French, with English and Chinese one click away.
Build
One HTML file, no framework or library.
Film
1 min 17 s for juries and 31 s upright for phones, cut to Planetarium by Musinova (Pixabay Content License).
Live
templum.space
By Karnak; creative direction, Alan Yang.
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A website in four books of photography, from the ground to the sky. Every photograph arrives cut into strips. By Karnak.