Material Explorations: NUUE by Studio Koya

Check out this amazing that explores the method of creating materials.

NUUE by Studio Koya

“I have been experimenting and researching unconventional methods of creating garments. The technique I have developed can also can be applied to create products.

Wrapping synthetic fibre around a desired form or chosen objects fascinates me. Through a heating process, wound fibre transformes itself into a 3-dimensional moulded garment bringing expected and unexpected sculptural silhouettes.

I have a great interest in the shape of objects that we interact with, some of my work responds to the idea of human silhouette as object and object as human silhouette.

My collection shows conceptual garments that have been created through this process. These garments display the potential of this idea and a journey that I will continue to develop.

Words and photos: Courtesy of Jungeun Lee & This is Paper

optical illusions

Renowned Brazilian artist Regina Silveira creates incredible illusions that play with our senses and messes with our minds. She invites the viewer see huge shadows or watch as toy cars make their messy track marks on a gallery’s white walls. In Lodz, Polland, she created an installation called “Depth” where she incorporated the gallery’s architecture, particularly its windows, to show a never-ending abyss one could actually walk on.

Currently, there’s a selection of Silveira’s work on display at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut (the only museum in Connecticut devoted to contemporary art). There, she presents In Absentia, a series of absent artworks on empty pedestals. She does this by creating gigantic and distorted vinyl shadows of objects that don’t actually exist.

I love how she plays our perception of space, creating site-specific works that transform blank walls and floors into her desired playground. As she says, “The ability to dialog with increasingly extensive architectural spaces and the opportunities for conceiving and realizing interventions in specific architectures is a trend in my work that began in the 1990s and has continued until today.”

installations

Some of my latest interests in Installations.

‘EXOtique’ is the result of a one week, low-budget design progress through fabrication installation at the Ball State’s College of Architecture. One day was devoted to design, one day of Modeling in Rhino / Grasshopper and materials testing, and three shared days of fabrication, assembly, and installation with help from the students of the University.

This project explores the potential application of electro-active polymer (EAP) at an architectural scale. EAP offers a new relationship to built space through its unique combination of qualities. It is an ultra-lightweight, flexible material with the ability to change shape without the need for mechanical actuators. EAP is a polymer actuator that converts electrical power into mechanical force. In principle it consists of a thin layer of very elastic acrylic tape sandwiched between two electrodes. Once the voltage in the range of several kilovolts is applied between the electrodes, the polymer changes its shape in two ways. First, due to the attraction of the opposing charges, the film is squeezed in the thickness direction (up to 380%), secondly, the repelling forces between equal charges on both electrodes result in a linear expansion of the film. As a result, after actuation the film becomes thinner and its surface area increases. If the supportive frame is flexible, due to the initial pre-stretching of the acrylic film, the frame bends. After application of voltage, the material expands, and the component flattens out.

“‘Adaptive fa[CA]de’ is a manifestation of how naturally designed systems can potentially inspire a new type of adaptive, programmable architecture. It explores a wide spectrum of functional possibilities and performative characteristics of Cellular Automata (CA). CA are bottom-up algorithms and a great example of ‘hidden’, low-level intelligence found in several emergent and often complex, natural formations. ‘Adaptive fa[CA]de’ is an endeavour to formulate a surface based on simple CA rules that constantly alters its pattern by tilting each panel on the grid to seven possible angles.”

interesting self portraits

UK-based studio random international has developed the interactive light installation ‘swarm study/iii’ on special commission of london’s victoria and albert museum and in association with the carpenters workshop gallery. the piece overhangs the staircase adjoining the V&A’s architecture and ceramics galleries, where it will remain for three years. ‘swarm study/iii’ consists of four cubic forms suspended from the ceiling, each composed of a grid of illuminated brass rods. a camera placed next to the piece tracks visitor movement, causing the lights of the installation to flicker, brighten, and dim in response. ‘though apparently inanimate,’ the V&A notes, ”swarm study/iii’ translates collective behavioral patterns found in nature into moving light. the installation is brought to life by visitors’ activity, engaging them with both the swarm itself and the surround space of the museum.’

Algae exhibition. part of ecologic master plan for algae city masterplan

Prickly Pear is an installation proposal for the work of Nicola Formichetti designed by Barker Freeman Design Office that proposes an immersive sensory environment with changing color tones that can correspond to changing music, body movement, or merchandise within the space. Our concept was to insert an enveloping volume of stretchy translucent netting that would capture and reflect the shifting light spectrum emitted from the system of custom LED fixtures. The lighting could be programmed on a pre-set script or it could be set to respond to environmental changes

spiral installation video

watch this video promoting Faber castell pens. Amazing skills

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Mouvements modernes

Merete Rasmussen

 

 

 

eat this planking

This past week while I was in Vegas, one of my friends Cassie was showing me pictures of people planking. If you are apparently a social hermit and don’t know what ‘planking’ is like I did- please look it up in an urban dictionary…. here

So right when i saw this post on sweet station i swear i had to share it. The project called Bodies in Urban Space was held in lower manhatten in NY and dancers started at sunrise and inched their way literally in the crevices of the Big Apple to form a live installation.  Makes you think about the unnoticed urban spaces doesn’t it?

choreographed by Willie Dorner

travel sketches inspirations

TODAY IS THE DAY yay!!!

So i’m just sitting and gathering up last minute stuff – especially all the awesome places that my friends have recommended to go. My flight is in 6 hours and i CANNOT wait to sit in front of these architectural monuments or in front of the European cafes and start sketching! there is seriously nothing more awesome than the smell of a crisp new sketchbook. So i’ve been doing so i’ve been doing some  research because I’m pretty sure I’ve fallen out of the swing in terms of sketching. SO here are some sketches that i LOVE. seriously gives me the willies.

the study of movement

I have been always been fascinated by the pivot of which art and science merge. So let us analyze the body on a 2d plane of which we record the most things most invisible and observe them in order to effect the quality of our designs. After all, isn’t the whole point of design to capture the things that people overlook and create it into a way to generate thought and innovation? Check out these images which records the body moving through time and space.

See you soon,

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Science of movement Chronophotography of dancer Ami Shulman walking, Montreal, July 2009. Credit: Butch Rovan

Etienne jules marey, chronophotograph of a bird in flight

Marey’s efforts to measure a beating heart and to capture birds in flight produced the technologies that led to the modern cinema. Bergson’s reflections on matter and memory produced a philosophy that re-imagined the relation of mind to body. The installation invites participants to experience this scientific and humanistic legacy through a series of interactive pieces that explores the idea and the beauty of a single human body in motion.

string in motion

dancer

Analysis of movement: still image from film of dancer Ami Shulman jumping, July 2009

E.J. Marey, Chronophotographs from “The Human Body in Action,” Scientific American, 1914

Eliot Eliofson, Duchamp descending a staircase, photograph from Life Magazine (1952)

Painting [102] of Deleuze’s Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

In this painting, the levels of sensation would be like arrests or snapshots of motion, which would recompose the movement synthetically in all its continuity, speed, and violence, as in synthetic cubism, futurism, or Duchamp’s Nude [102].

photos series

stumbled upon these on 500 photographers, a weblog of some of the most amazing photos i’ve ever seen. each series tells such an interesting story.Especially now that i’m taking that architectural photography, good photography, good prints are truly hard to come by.

Carrie Levy

Carrie Levy, 1979, USA, studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and later received an MFA from the Royal College of Art in London. At a young age she released her book 51 Months. 51 months was the length of the prison sentence her father received when Carrie was sixteen, during this period she started photographing her life and the effects of her fathers incarceration. Her photography evolved and became more and more conceptual, however the experience of her father’s incarceration keeps coming back in her projects. Her series Untitled was still based upon the stories of her father. In her latest series she has photographed men in submissive, vulnerable and passive role. She shows us that females can as well objectify the male body. Carrie has exhibited her work extensively troughout the world. The following images come from the series You Before All, Impaired and Untitled.

 

Sohei Nishino

Sohei Nishino, 1982, Japan, has made 100 thousands of images, yet only has 12 photographs in his portfolio. The way he works only permits him to finish three images in one year. He walks in a city for a month or longer, photographing all the buildings from every possible angle. In the following months he hand prints a selection of several thousand images to piece them all together with scissors and glue to make one single map of that city. It resembles an aerial map. However, the map is not a precise geographic recreation, but shows all the iconic features and landmarks. In the last stage of his work he photographs the end result, creating one image that is full of detail. He used the same technique for two images in color that show an imaginary nightscape and an Island. The following images are from the series Diorama Map and the images Night and i-Land.

Nathalie Daoust

Nathalie Daoust, 1977, Canada, concentrates in her photographic work on unveiling the secrets hidden beneath the apparent stability of life. Daoust first got recognized in 1997 with her project New York Hotel Story which was published as a book. Since then she traveled the world to Japan, Brazil and Switzerland amongst other places to create conceptual projects. In her series Tokyo Hotel Story she explores female sexuality and subversion of gender stereotypes. She spend several months in one of the biggest S&M ‘love hotels’ in order to show the “universal desire to escape reality and create fantasy worlds that often oscillate between dream, reality and perversion.” The following images come from the series Tokyo Hotel Story, Frozen in Time, Switzerland and Entre Quatre Murs, Berlin.

Txema Salvans

Txema Salvans, Spain, 1971, is a documentary photographer with a special interest in how we humans spend our free time. He enjoys the positive interaction he has with his subjects making it possible for him to get a look at the physical and mental spaces of leisure where everyone is looking for happiness. His series Spanish Hits (De Carretera) is a journey through the Mediterranean coast stopping at the places where entire families enjoy their leisures on a small beach between the sea and concrete. In his series Spanish Roads he focused on the suppliers of leisure. On the outskirts of the city he photographed prostitutes and other suppliers of services by the road in unhabitable spaces that are nonetheless lived in. The following images come from the series Spanish Roads, Spanish Hits and Welcome Aboard.

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installation and spaces

Last week I helped the school of architecture design and build an installation for the Spring Festival along with 15 other people from various years in architecture. Although it was one of the coldest nights i have ever spent building it was actually a lot of fun. Kinda forced me to know other years.

Here are photos of several installations that are simply amazing! i love installations. There are truly know creative bounds .

tape installation

Sculptures by Sonja Vordermaier / via samantha kon

“Cornfield”, a paper-and-glue sculpture by Ryuji Nakamura

FREE By Sean Martindale

Patrick Dougherty

solid door

Tokujin Yoshioka The Snow

Cornelia Parker Mass

Howeler Yoon Light and Sound Installation

see you soon

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