Toronto’s austere east beaches will be turned into a free, outdoor art gallery come February, with the installation of four “bold” art projects set for midway through the month.

Three of the designs were winners of the sixth annual Winter Stations Design Competition, with the fourth coming from Centennial College. Selected from 273 submissions, the winners collectively “celebrate Toronto’s winter waterfront landscape and aim to draw people outside to interact with installations, the winter and each other,” reads a press release from the group.

The theme for the contest was “beyond the five senses.”

According to the release, designers “were asked to explore how our senses interact and overlap to provide us with a picture of our environment and how we interact with it, demonstrating our subjective relationship to reality or displaying a distorted one.”

Here are the winners:

Mirage by Cristina Vega and Pablo Losa Fontangordo

Mirage by Cristina Vega and Pablo Losa Fontangordo is one of the winners of the Winter Stations Design Competition.

Mirage is made “to react to the movements of the sun and the people,” and changes its form; depending on their positioning, viewers “will see either a red, transparent sun setting or a light and bright, rising sun laying on the horizon.”

Kaleidoscope of the Senses by Charlie Sutherland of SUHUHA

Kaleidoscope of the Senses by Charlie Sutherland of SUHUHA.

Kaleidoscope of the Senses “repurposes the existing lifeguard chair, bringing together a balanced yet dynamic composition of elements which are both a visual and experiential celebration of the senses and a metaphor of the body in space.”

Noodle Feed by iheartblob

Noodle Feed by iheartblob.

Noodle Feed goes beyond physical senses and “creates a shared augmented reality environment where people can interact in new ways and consider that the world is much more than we perceive.”

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An Augmented Reality App allows visitors to “leave digital traces of their time at the installation, including photos, stories and drawings that can be seen by other users in physical space.”

The Beach’s Percussion Ensemble (Centennial College)

Beach's Percussion Ensemble, from Centennial College.

This project is made up of three structures of varying sizes, including stacked wooden rectangular prisms laid out in a circular shape around a giant steel drum.

Visitors are encouraged to “use sticks chained to the structure to play along with the sounds produced by the lake’s elements,” and “graffiti artists will also be invited to tag the structure.”

The projects will be set up on Feb. 17.