Nade Haley

Outside In, 2008
Laminated Glass Walls

Multimedia Center –
Carman Hall

Dormitory Authority
State of New York

Nade
Nade Haley’s project, Outside In, is installed in Lehman’s Multimedia Center and meshes seamlessly with the architecture of the building itself. Curtain walls — approximately 850 square feet of translucent and transparent images laminated between the glass — provide subtle screening for the offices and lecture rooms on two floors of the Center. Images connected to technology blend with those from nature and with bits of texts. Haley found sources in the electrical wires and cables of the computer center and the dappled light of tree branches and tangle of vines from the nearby parks. The Center, designed by Fox+Fowle Architects, was constructed under the plaza of Carman Hall and is lighted by a mixture of natural light from skylights and artificial lighting. Like a lightbox, the walls appear to glow from within when on the outside and vice-versa.