Toroid

-COMING SOON-

Artist:  This is Loop

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Location: Port of San Francisco at Harry Bridges Plaza

Installation Date: December 2025

Partners: San Francisco Port, Sijbrandij Foundation, Building 180

Rendering by Harry Bridges
All renders subject to change

The TOROID, or primary pattern, is an energy dynamic that looks like a ring doughnut, a continuous surface with a hole in it. Energy flows in through one end, circulates around the center and exits out the other side. You can see it everywhere – in atoms, cells, seeds, flowers, trees, animals, humans, hurricanes, planets, suns, galaxies, and even the cosmos as a whole.

It is this that provides the basis of examination for the design concept of TOROID, with emphasis on creating a structure that can play with scale and perception in both physical and visual terms.

As with all of our installations, we felt it important for the piece to offer as much to it's surroundings during daylight hours as it does at night, so with reflective surfaces completely covering all facets, TOROID takes on it's surrounding environment, providing new ways of perceiving previously familiar spaces. 

About the Artists

Loop is the collaborative artistic partnership of artists Harriet Lumby and Alan Hayes.

Based at thier Somerset studio they have established a reputation for creating large scale experiential installations utilising reflections and illusion at the intersection of technology, science and art.

Thier playful sculptures invite audiences to be engulfed by intense and thought provoking choreographed audio visual journeys.