Crumple Zone | Plasma Studio

London / United Kingdom / 2004

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Crumple Zone, a site-specific installation is utilising CNC-punch-pressed steel with projected imagery to create a piece that challenges the preconceptions of the Vitruvi­an principles of stability, utility and beauty in the inaugural exhibition by Factio, a not-for-profit curatorial collective created to support dialogue within British fashion, art, design and architecture.


Bypassing the typically linear process of design followed by construction, and reversing traditional skeleton struc­tural systems Plasma Studio programmed a pile of stan­dard industrial sheet steel with information in the form of perforated seams. As in recent automotive strategies, the seemingly weakened material organization enables a for­mation of global stress distribution lines achieving a differ­ent kind of structural performance.


The sheet material turned form through the negotiation of overall curatorial organization, the site and structur­al form-finding. Still, it mirrors traditional architectural works in expanding from the subservient function of provid­ing surface and backdrop for the other exhibits to its own inherent discussion.


While the piece is derived from a rigorous set of propor­tional relationships, these merely differentiate the material consistency to direct the reciprocal forces within the pro­cess of production. A contemporary aesthetic discussion stems from the embedded interrelationships, the sensu­ality of forms liberated from straightjacket Cartesian rules and its weightless appearance.


 


Bypassando il processo tipicamente lineare di progettazione seguito dalla costruzione, e invertendo i sistemi strutturali tradizionali dello scheletro, Plasma Studio ha programmato una serie di lamiere industriali standard in acciaio con informazioni sotto forma di cuciture perforate. Come nelle recenti strategie automobilistiche, l’organizzazione materiale apparentemente indebolita permette la formazione di linee di distribuzione dello stress globale che ottengono un diverso tipo di performance strutturale.


Il materiale della lamiera si è trasformato attraverso la negoziazione con l’organizzazione generale dei curatori, con il sito e con la ricerca della forma strutturale. Tuttavia, rispecchia le opere architettoniche tradizionali nell’espandersi dalla funzione sottomessa di fornire la superficie e lo sfondo per le esposizioni alla propria discussione intrinseca.


Mentre l’opera deriva da un insieme rigoroso di rapporti proporzionali, questi si limitano a differenziare la consistenza del materiale per indirizzare le forze reciproche all’interno del processo di produzione. Una discussione sull’estetica contemporanea nasce dalle interrelazioni incorporate, dalla sensualità delle forme liberata dalle costrittive regole cartesiane e dalla sua apparenza senza peso.

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    Crumple Zone, a site-specific installation is utilising CNC-punch-pressed steel with projected imagery to create a piece that challenges the preconceptions of the Vitruvi­an principles of stability, utility and beauty in the inaugural exhibition by Factio, a not-for-profit curatorial collective created to support dialogue within British fashion, art, design and architecture. Bypassing the typically linear process of design followed by construction, and reversing traditional skeleton...

    Project details
    • Year 2004
    • Work finished in 2004
    • Client Factio
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Exhibitions /Installations
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