Mesmerizing is the right word to use. The Hope Tree Installation at Tokyo Designer’s Week 2010 is one mesmerizing masterpiece. It is an artistic and clever combination of paper and light inside a 20 feet shipping container.

Visitors walk into the space to find a toroidal surface composed of 670 self-supporting watercolor paper panels punched with leaf-like cutouts. To make the experience even more ethereal, these openings are illuminated by LED string lighting, which allowed for coverage of the entire space with minimal watt usage.

The Hope Tree was designed by 24° Studio.

I find this truly amazing. It’s environment friendly and no wonder it has been announced as one of the winners of Environmental Container Design and Art Competition. The illuminating effect is wonderful, and if I’m there I’ll probably think I’m hallucinating or maybe suffering some effects of fat burning supplements, but sigh! I wanna see this and experience it myself.

Via Inhabitat.