Vertiginous Interiors

The combination of composite fabrication methods and industrial-scale robotics allow us to investigate moving volumes as highly spatial, architectural installations. The com-plexity of this installation lies in the choreographed motion of two proto-architectural fig-ures. These two carbon-fibre shells are designed with interlocking apertures, structural ribs that accentuate the perceived motion from the inside, and degrees of translucency that create secondary apertures. Held by two industrial robots, the volumetric shells will be moved from an interlocking configuration to positions where the shells will be per-ceived as independent rooms.

The shells are designed to allow single visitors to stand inside the configured room and perceive the motion as an architectural interior. Cameras inside the two volumes capture footage through the volumes and across apertures to create effects of volume, vastness, and dislocation. As the installation space and visitors would create static points in the capture footage, the live feed of the two cameras would have similarities to simulations of planetary motion. This dislocating and gravity-defying effect will be projected into the gal-lery space so that the interiority of this installation becomes the highlight of the spectacle.

Exhibited at Acadia 2014 “Design Agency”, Los Angeles, USA

Project team: Rangel Karaivanov, Marta Piaseczynska, Juergen Strohmayer