TAOO began as a personal object — a way to relate to time through movement, gravity, and sound.
This page explores how the TAOO principle can extend into space. Bespoke kinetic timekeepers for places where people come together to relate to time with intention.
TAOO gives a space its own temporal field — a condition in which presence can emerge and be shared. Rituals, practices, circles — gently held within a shared rhythm.
The principle of kinetic time can be applied across forms and scales: from mobile pieces used in practice and facilitation, to fixed installations, to fully integrated spatial concepts.
Below are four spatial contexts where TAOO can take form — from yoga studios and meditation spaces, to retreat settings, gathering lounges, and ceremonial architecture. Form, color and material are adapted to the branding, architecture or interior of each individual space. If you design or curate environments where presence matters, this can serve as a starting point for dialogue.
Yoga & Meditation Spaces
Ritual timekeeper for group sessions.
Conceived for rooms where people gather in shared practice. Mobile enough to be brought into a circle, large enough to fill a space with resonance. The rhythm becomes collective — a gentle structure for yoga sessions, meditations, and facilitated circles.
Retreats & Hospitality
A basin from which time can be drawn.
Where TAOO becomes part of the daily rhythm of a place — not just present, but active. Marking the beginning of a morning session, the transition between activities, the next round in the sauna. A quiet signal that something is about to begin, or has just ended.
Lounges & Gathering Spaces
A timekeeper at the centre of conversation.
For spaces where people come together to think, speak, and listen. Integrated into a table or seating ensemble, TAOO gives the conversation a soft rhythm — visible to everyone in the circle, felt rather than enforced.
Ceremonial & Cultural Spaces
The heartbeat of an architecture.
Some spaces are built around a centre — monumental, still, oriented toward a point of gathering. TAOO, at this scale, becomes that centre. Not added to a space, but woven into it: the temporal core that gives a building its rhythm and its people a shared point of return.
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