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A remarkable animation of the concept behind the Seed Cathedral, by the London-based architects Heatherwick Studio, who are blurring boundaries by dissolving the British Pavilion’s physical envelop at this year’s World expo in Shanghai.

Made of… by Christiane Sauer on gestalten

Project description:
“Humans, who have worked with wood in many different ways for millennia, continue to explore new possibilities today using fractal geometry and sophisticated software. A true high tech material, wood fuses like metal; it is bent and pleated, braided with suppleness and curved gently into ribbed shells in the expert hands of EPFL’s Timber Construction Laboratory (IBOIS), directed by Yves Weinand. The “Timber Project” exhibit presents current research in timber construction, where interdisciplinarity – in this case, between civil engineering, architecture, mathematics, and computer science – provides a breath of fresh air and a surge of new inspiration. This research, whose timing coincides with current environmental and ecological concerns, is leading to innovative construction solutions that can be efficiently built and are economically viable – a new architecture of wood.”
Exhibition design & photos © copyright by fred hatt | tangram*.

The translucent effect is achieved by CNC carving the wooden panels.

Via EPFLTV.

Whisper Cloud is an interactive installation meant to be projected on a large multi-touch screen, allowing direct interaction with the viewer.

The artwork questions our relationship to new digital technologies and the contradictions that sometimes occur. The dots are a flat, visual representation of the word “surface” in Braille. The pixilated mouth whispers heart-beat sounds, as a clock would tick the time away. Constant interaction is needed to keep what is “behind” visible and moving. Physicality plays with virtual reality and their combination results in a unified, dimensional experience.

NEST’s concept takes its inspiration from a recycled MacBook styrofoam packaging.
A litteral approach is taken by exploring the spatial qualities of the model scale like packaging and suggesting a life size habitation / shelter module based on the same characteristics. This project was an entry at the Design It Shelter Competition, organized by the Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp.

Designed to be trashed?… two old Apple products packaging were recycled to create a 3-dimensional interactive cover for a presentation book.

The styrofoam MacBook packaging was chosen because of its interesting volumetric pattern. The back was carved to fit the book and the original acrylic iPhone packaging was embedded in the front to house the multimedia player, which displays interactive videos related to the book content.

More of these old Apple packagings wanted, in case you haven’t already discarded yours…

Light variations on the 3-dimensional pattern:

• Pattern5

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• Pattern4

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• Pattern3

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• Pattern2

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• Pattern1

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So exhibition design it is, and environments, experiences, art installations, interactions… the term I am tempted to use is spatial design, referring to anything really occupying & influencing a space – then it’s about the surrounding void too…

This blog is about celebrating this diversity through a contemporary eye.