Starfield is a large-scale site-specific light installation by 1024 architecture, commissioned by the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia and premiered at Forte Marghera as part of the 2023 Architecture Biennale. Designed to immerse viewers in a surreal, celestial experience, the installation transforms the park into a living field of stars.

Composed of 10 parallel strips of flashlights, each 50 meters long, Starfield draws visual inspiration from agricultural furrows—referencing both cultivation and cosmic geometry. The lights flicker on and off unpredictably, generating a vibrating constellation of light across the ground. This random rhythm is synchronized to an original musical composition created specifically for the piece, turning the landscape into a fully immersive audiovisual field.

By mapping artificial starlight onto the earth, Starfield evokes a deep sense of cosmic perspective, grounding the vastness of the universe in the immediacy of public space. The interplay of light and sound envelops visitors in a sensorial dialogue between nature, structure, and abstraction.

As with many of 1024 architecture’s works, Starfield activates the landscape not only visually but emotionally—inviting viewers to contemplate the invisible connections between rhythm, memory, and celestial order. It is both a technological artwork and a poetic gesture, where precision lighting design becomes a tool for spatial storytelling.