Æsthe/tech:Tonik
Building | Beauty | Consuming | ImageArchive for July, 2009
Matryoshka
Recently, Tent London & The Art Fund Prize sponored a competition to design a semi-permenant summer pavilion for the Lightbox Museum. Amongst all of the criteria, the gyst is that it needed to be a flex space to house a number of various art pieces (standing, hanging, etc.), allow for presentations, and be a place for informal gathering.
In addition, it was to be designed such that a local design and fabrication firm (FACIT), could use their system to produce the product within 72 hours (on-site build time).
The following is my entry, entitled Matryoshka. The project is based around a proposition that a system of volumes be nested within one another in an ultra-efficient cube, and their ultimate extension results in new program-specific space. I found the most liberating thing about the project was that it was an exercise in restraint – from the site, to the programmatic stipulations, cost and highly specific construction methodology, the design had to satisfy a number of constraints.
The winning entry was from Tina Manis, and was highly effective.
Enjoy
MS
Maha Nakhon
OMA/Ole Scheeren tower design in Bangkok (estimated completion 2012). It will be the tallest building in Thailand’s capital.
77 Stories, 1.6 million square feet.
MS
Noriko Ambe
I was looking at the work of Noriko Ambe the other day, and am completely fascinated with the meticulous nature of her endeavors. What’s interesting to me is the dichotomy between what is expected and what is revealed in this process. Superficially, I don’t know if I am to believe that these are excavations of sorts, where the beauty lies within the sequential discovery of the formal nuances amidst each layer of Yupo paper as it is carved away, or if in fact, she knows what is coming next, and the mastery of the technique has led to a carefully planned additive method, where we only see what she intends, knowing how each layer will unfold.
I would guess it’s probably a little of both, which makes it all the more compelling.
MS
