ART WITHIN SURFACES
UNStudio and Monopol’s ‘The Coolest White’ featured in State of Extremes, Design Museum Holon’s Decennial Exhibition Shown for the first time in a site-specific installation for ‘State of Extremes’, The Coolest White is an innovative and highly-resilient paint created to protect urban structures from excessive solar radiation and reduce the urban heat island effect.
visitors to see the difference in temperature,
With global warming causing extreme
site-specific installation by UNStudio with
envisioning the effect of The Coolest White.
weathers, drastic climate change cause
manufacturer Monopol Colors showcasing
One of the main causes of the urban heat
dramatically receding glaciers, flooding
‘The Coolest White’, recently revealed for the
island effect, is the heat-retaining materials
and wildfires which severely affecting the
first time in the exhibition State of Extremes,
used in built environments which makes cities
planet, The Coolest White demonstrate
curated by Aric Chen with Maya Dvash, Chief
significantly hotter than their surrounding
how design acts as a mediating and healing
Curator of Design Museum Holon, and Azinta
areas as well as the lack of green spaces and
force. Designers, scientists and engineers
Plantenga.
exhaust from air-conditioning which also
responding to these issues with new
The installation visualizes the properties of their
contributes to the boiling effect. As buildings
innovative products that can potentially save
latest innovation, The Coolest White, a paint
absorb solar radiation and store heat from
the planet. The installation featuring
that has been developed to reduce warming in
the sun, greater energy is required to cool
The Coolest White by UNStudio and Monopol
metropolitan areas known as the urban heat
their interiors, while more heat is released
is now on view at Design Museum Holon until
island effect. Emulating the density of the city
and trapped in the urban environment. The
May 9th, 2020.
structures, the installation comprises of black
Coolest White is an ultra-durable paint based
and white buildings and skyscrapers, partially
on fluoropolymer technology, which protects
For further information:
painted in The Coolest White, and partially
buildings and urban structures from excessive
www.dmh.org.il, www.coolestwhite.com,
covered in regular black paint. The installation
solar radiation – thus slowing down the urban
www.unstudio.com and
implements a heat-sensing camera to allow
heat island effect.
www.monopol-colors.ch
© Elad Sarig
© UNStudio and Monopol Colors
Design Museum Holon unveils a special
The Coolest White by UNStudio and Monopol Colors.
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The Coolest White, thermal-screen.