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Light, Space, and Movement Become Art During the Mesmerizing Sensory Experience of “VOID”
VOID is an interactive sensory art installation created by New York-based artists Sergio Mora-Diaz, Oryan Inbar and Jordan Backhus, that manipulates light in physical space to generate an immersive interaction arena and a meditative, transcendent spatial experience, which reminiscent of the cosmic sky and streams of information.
The installation is composed of an arrangement of translucent screens, digital generative images displayed through a projector and sensors that respond directly and visually to the proximities and movements of its users.
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The experience takes place in a closed room with a single entrance and in complete darkness, where the only light source comes from the projector. The arrangement of screens gives light a three-dimensional effect in space, while allowing people to walk through the installation.
Courtesy of Sergio Mora-Díaz
Courtesy of Sergio Mora-Díaz
With their work, the artists seek to create an experience that connects to the physicality and emotions of the users, attracting their attention and use of the body as a conduit to the mind.
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Given the scale of the installation, its arena, the immersive optical effects and the non-traditional display, it will appear that one is traveling through time and space.
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VOID has been exhibited in New York at the Tisch School of the Arts and Livestream Public as a part of Frieze Art Week in 2015. In their last showcase, the artists had the support of Performa and the collaboration of New York City Ballet choreographer Troy Schumacher, to exhibit the installation accompanied by a performance by New York Ballet dancers Sean Suozzi and Claire Kretzschmar.
Wasserwacht Lifeboat Station / Kunze Seeholzer Architekten
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- Architects: Kunze Seeholzer Architekten
- Location: 80995 Munich, Germany
- Area: 198.0 m2
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Jann Averwerser
- Client: Landeshauptstadt München
- Landscape Architects: fischer heumann landschaftsarchitekten, Munich
- Structural Engineeering: LEICHT structural engineering ans specialist consulting GmbH, Munich
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© Jann Averwerser
With optimum orientation and reference to the height differences of the site the construction of the new Lifeboat Station on Lerchenauer See in Munich was designed. In the basement there is the boat garage, which can be operated directly from the lake. On the ground floor are located the common rooms and the control centre. The functional structure follows the selection of the formative materials. The timber frame construction is fitted on a concrete base, formed from the hang out. Wood and stone are the key elements of the place – it can be found in the Lifeboat Station again and reflected in the water of the lake.
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Half Buried House / eneseis arquitectura
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- Architects: eneseis arquitectura
- Location: Calle Abad Nájera, 03002 Alacant, Alicante, Spain
- Architects In Charge: Daniel Solbes, Jose Luis Durán
- Area: 170.6 m2
- Project Year: 2012
- Photographs: Andrés Flasjzer
- Collaborating Architect: Daniel Cano, Luis Hernandez
- Constructor: Construcciones y reformas quintanilla
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From the architect. Aspe´s half buried house is located in the typical inner Alicante´s half desertic landscape, amongst irrigated crops and low mountains of great beauty, yet surrounded by a single family residential tissue, dense and repetitive.
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Winters are not too cold, and at the same time there is a dominant West wind that lowers thermal feeling. Summers are very hot and dry.
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Project´s main goal was to achieve an special place, highly related to landscape, in order to live comfortably.
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Project´s strategy was to work at the same time plot, landscape and building, to obtain the most of them, enhancing themselves to each other.
Axonometric
Landscape is a prolongation of the garden, which is a prolongation of the home.
Thermal confort was achieved by partially burying the dwelling. Thanks to that, the house takes advantage of the thermal inertia, that naturally adjusts temperature. This, together with a targeted orientation that obtains winnings in winter and protection in summer, plus a crossed ventilation, results into a thermal responsive home.
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By burying the house taking advantage of the plot´s slope, two flat levels are activated: the terrace-garden area above, plus the house level where pool is located as well.
Ground Floor
House´s floor plan has S shape, attached to plot´s west edge, where entrance is located too. Dwelling is required pass in order to access the plot, protecting at the same time the pool.
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Inner S side generates an open court where main rooms and circulation face, creating an extension of inner space towards outer garden, without an intimacy loss.
Result is a white construction that highlights the house, and that embeds itself into the terrain, interweaving with gardens, courtyards, inner spaces and terraces, creating different ways of experiencing the place, and relating to the landscape.
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Villa Vatnan / Nordic Office of Architecture
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- Architects: Nordic Office of Architecture
- Location: Trondheim, Norway
- Architect In Charge: John Arne Bjerknes
- Area: 250.0 m2
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: visualis / m.c.herzog, Espen Grønli
- Client : Vatnan family
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From the architect. Nordic — Office of Architecture was approached by the Vatnan family to deliver their dream home. They had a simple architectural vision, but a demanding site on which it was to be realised.
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Located on the edge of an established residential area with limited access and a steep topography, the site does however offer fantastic views from the private and shielded south-west facade.
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The family desired a home for both everyday life and entertaining, where the primary rooms are all collated on one floor with generous sizes and well resolved spatial relationships. By lifting this main floor up to one floor above the natural entrance level, we captured the best of the views and the sun. The elongated body of the house shelters against the wind and creates an open private outdoor space, while the bedrooms and living areas all have direct access to the garden via a covered terrace stretching the length of the house.
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The simple concept is reinforced by the overall simplicity in use of materials. The entire main floor is covered in pine boards, and the living room, kitchen and terrace are clad in veneered oak. The concrete is sealed throughout the house, and the ceiling height of 2.8 metres further contributes to the experience of the house opening up towards the grand view to the south-west.
Floor Plan
The basement and main deck are cast in concrete and the gable and long walls to the north-east are clad in cedar wood.
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Product Description. Dinesen Oak wooden floor, 450mm width. Used on whole upper main floor in all rooms – living, kitchen and bedrooms, establishing the principle idea of one dominant floor for the whole family.
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Slow Town Tiny House / The Plus Partners + DNC Architects
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- Architects: The Plus Partners, DNC Architects
- Location: Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea
- Area: 19.8 m2
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Moobum Bang
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‘The Tiny House of Slow Town’, one of the ‘Slow Town’ projects, is the building of small houses that uses the least modules out of woods to expand the inadequate accomodations in Gangwon city, the host city for the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, and also to provide an easy access to the geographical beauty of the city.
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Floor Plan
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Floor Plan
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Gangwon city is one of the few clean areas left in Korea and it needs to be protected and kept that way. ‘The Tiny House Of Slow Town’ project has the purpose of providing accomodations with the maximized housing facilities while using the least materials that are environmentally friendly.
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