Marc Fornes creates pink "envelope of experiential tension" for Situation Room installation
Perforated pink aluminium panels form a sinuous structure that envelops visitors to this installation by French architect Marc Fornes, his studio The Very Many and sound artist Jana Winderen (+ slideshow).
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Located at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Marc Fornes' bright pink installation is built from thin perforated panels of aluminium.
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The Situation Room was created by combining twenty spherical shapes into a continuous curving membrane using boolean mathematical operations.
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"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," said Fornes
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Where the spheres meet, the joints have been smoothed out to create double curvatures that provide structural rigidity.
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This forms a series of coves, niches, tunnels and openings in the envelope for visitors to walk through. Columns that extending down from the canopy carry some of the load of the structure.
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Lighting is used outside the aluminium skin to illuminate the sculptural form.
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Lights inside create a bright environment and shine out through the small holes in the shell, dappling patterns across the surfaces around the room.
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Jana Winderen engineered 10 resonant sounds to be propagated across the membrane – turning the installation into an instrument.
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"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," said Fornes.
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The installation will remain in place until 21 November.