Situation Room

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“Situation Room” 是目前正在纽约举行，将于11月21日结束的视觉加音效艺术装置。20个相交的红色的超薄球体放置在steven holl早年设计的临街展廊中，外部以重复交错的平滑球面造型充满空间，内部则是双曲面构成的丰富流体空间。红球壳体上的镂空在精心设计的灯光照射下形成不可思议的光影效果。

空间，结构，形式，性能，零件，照明，光影等等所有效果都统一设计，这种扑面而来的另类感让体验充满紧张与刺激，人们在尺度适宜的内部流线中其感受着每一步的不同，下一步的未知。

Situation Room by MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY is a light-weight, ultra-thin self-supported shell structure augmented by artist Jana Winderen’s engineered sounds. The overall form is an aggregate of twenty spheres of incremental diameters, combined to create an envelope of experiential tension, a sort of sublime dialogue between the comfort of the known and an uneasy interaction with the unknown. Theresultant morphology resonates with a series of distributed transducers and lighting sources playing out through streams of porosity derived from structural stress flows across the elements.

The envelope is created out of boolean operations merging the spheres and lending rigidity through the inherent double curvature, while best allowing for storage through nesting of incremental radii. The inverted curvature of smoothed sphere-intersections provide additional reinforcement while blending with a series of internal rhizomatic networks derived from convergent sphere points. The internal networks subdivide and recombine, eventually resolving into columns to carry down-loads to the ground. The apparent complexity of the internal morphology is a direct result of the dense aggregate of spheres, creating a rich repertoire of spatial conditions exemplified by compression/expansion, hierarchies and branching, knotting, coves… Stress flows from structural analysis are used for directional fitness by a series of distributed agents crawling
its morphology. Their trails are eventually materialized into non-linear aluminum stripes, while gaps within the force flows are translated into aperture. The spatial experience is augmented through ten-channels of resonant sounds propagated across the structural surface, operating here as a membrane for distributed transducers. The system set-up provides a large scale inhabitable instrument-apparatus of play for both composer and visitor. Spatial envelope, acoustic-membrane, structural-performance, assembly-parts and distributed lighting are unified and amalgamated through a coat of neon-effect, blurring one’s perception of the known. Installation specifics: Skin area: 168,520 sq.in.; Spheroids: 20; Flairs: 21; Structural Nodes: 26; Columns: 3; Unique parts: 1673; Lights source: 28; Transducers: 10.

 

CREDITS:

An installation by MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY and Jana Winderen
www.theverymany.com
www.janawinderen.com

Storefront for Art and Architecture NYC
October 4 – November 21, 2014

On the occasion of Situation NY and the launch of World Wide Storefront / wwstorefront.org
Sound composition by Jana Winderen
Computation/Assembly by MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
Fabrication by bengal.fierro
Commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture
With the support of Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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