Concept:
Materials + Tech
1-way mirrored Acrylic, Stainless steel, 1038 Addressable RGBW LED’s, IR motion Sensors, Interactive
Brief
Two facing infinity mirrors light up with synced wave animations as you walk down the hallway, using hidden sensors and custom LED controls to create a smooth, reactive wayfinding experience.
Client
Neko Health
Year
2025
Location
London, Long Acre
When we were asked to create two large infinity mirrors for the Neko Body Scans hallway, the goal was simple: make something beautiful that also guides people through the space. The mirrors portray animations that tell the story of a living smart building.
What We Were Working With
Each mirror contained three strips of RGBW LEDs, adding up to 1,038 pixels per mirror. With two mirrors, that’s a lot of pixels to control smoothly. We also had to make the whole system feel seamless, animations needed to start instantly and perfectly in sync on both sides.
Fitting It Into the Building
The mirrors were pill-shaped, which doesn’t play nicely with standard wall construction. To make installation painless, we designed a custom plywood mounting panel that got built into the wall early on.
This meant the builders could plasterboard straight up to the panel, leaving us with a perfect recess later. When the mirrors arrived on site, they just dropped straight in, no headaches, no surprises.
How We Made It Work
We built an LED controller into each mirror, but instead of running them independently, we configured one as the master and the other as the slave.
The master mirror had a hidden infrared sensor tucked into its frame.
When someone walked down the hallway, the master picked up the movement and sent a simple trigger signal to the slave mirror.
Both mirrors then fired the exact same animation at the exact same moment.
Hiding the Tech
The IR sensor was completely hidden in the mirror frame, so the experience feels magical, no visible detectors, no clutter, just the mirrors reacting to you.
In the end, the mirrors didn’t just look great, they felt great to walk past. The hallway subtly comes alive as you move through it, and everything sits cleanly in the architecture with no visible tech or fasteners.
It’s a simple idea brought to life with some clever electronics, custom fabrication, and a lot of attention to detail
Images Courtesy of Neko
Images Courtesy of Neko
