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ID: 021

MOVING AND SPACE FORMING OBJECTS

2016 Milan

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description

The installation belongs to the multi-part work group Moving and Space Forming Objects, which has investigated provisional, unstable, and form-generating spatial structures since 2015. Its point of departure was a site-specific intervention in Warsaw, where a walkable pneumatic object was tensioned into the unfinished structure of an abandoned building project. The existing architecture did not function as a neutral frame, but as a counterforce: a spatial matrix in which form emerged from tension, air pressure, wind, and constructive constraint.

In Milan, this approach was continued under altered conditions. In place of an existing building structure, three mobile steel-frame elements on wheels were arranged in a courtyard as a temporary spatial sequence. A membrane was tensioned into the consecutively positioned frames, using material that had remained from the 2016 intervention in Warsaw. The work thus transferred an already tested principle into a new, fragile, and movable experimental arrangement.

The resulting pavilion was walkable and, at the same time, unstable. Through a generous rear opening, wind entered the body and inflated the membrane. Form appeared here not as a fixed shape, but as the provisional result of a relation of forces between tension, pressure, air movement, and spatial configuration. The work does not conceive of space as a closed container, but as a dynamic field in which wind becomes the co-producer of architectural form.

INFO

LOCATION: MILAN
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016
DIMENSIONS: 12,00 X 2.50 X 3.50 M
MATERIAL: FOIL, WIND

TYPE OF WORK: INSTALLATION


RELATED

2021 CAGE,  2016 MSO Warsaw, 2015 MSO WARSAW


PRESS

DOMUS MAGAZINE, DESIGNBOOM, FORM DESIGN MAGAZINE N° 268, ALAN N. SHAPIRO