Designer: Numen / For Use
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Croatian/Austrian Design Collective

NOTE: These are images from various different exhibitions they did with Tape around the world – for more exact info on locations please contact the designers.

About the Designers:
Numen/For Use is a Croatian-Austrian design collective working in the fields of scenography, industrial and spatial design and conceptual art.
The group first formed in 1998 as a collaborative effort of industrial designers Sven Jonke, Christoph Katzler and Nikola Radeljković under the banner For Use. In 1999 they establish Numen as a collective identity covering all projects actualised outside the sphere of industrial design.

Proposal: TAPE
The tape concept developed further towards a more sculptural architectonic form. It was practically “found” through the act of chaotic wrapping, where a one-dimensional line (“tape”), slowly turned into two-dimensional plane, which then finally curved into volume.

The installation was envisaged as a site specific, parasitical structure invading an arbitrary location. The straight lines of main trajectories are stretched across a given area and these tendons are then wrapped diagonally with layers of elastic tape, giving shape to a complex organic form through a process similar to the emergence of such structures in nature. With the further layering of the tape, the figure becomes more and more corporeal as it picks up on the slow increase of the curvature. The interior of the structure is supple, elastic, and pliable while the form itself is statically perfect, as it ideally follows the trajectories of forces, being literally defined by them. In the moment when the audience enters the installation, what started off as a sculpture seamlessly morphs into architecture.

*Check out the Gallery of Images below for more images.

Designer: Corning
Project: A video of the future

The not so distant future…It could all happen sooner than we think.
Imagine how this could impact the various fields of design…exciting!
*perhaps not the newest video on the subject matter – came out in Feb 2011

DESIGNERS: Veronica Velasquez + Alexandra Epeshina

http://veronicavelasquez.net/

Academy of the Art University
Instructor: Kory Bieg
San Francisco, CA

PROPOSAL:
This studio focused on boolean evolution and design process through iterative transformations. For our design we explored the concept of booleans as motion and how the transformation of the volume informs the program and the quality of the spaces. We were interested in developing the threshold between interior and exterior volumes, while also considering how the building could embrace the surrounding urban context. After various iterations and explorations with the boolean operation, we defined two main principles for creating space.

1-The twisting of booleaned spaces as the building forms up, which serves as the main circulation & allows for the exposure of the public through a procession experience throughout the building.(white)
2-The array of the booleaned spaces as they wrap around the top of the interior volumes, afforded the ability to set up a performance stage, thus a way to bring the city into the building.(green)