The ARTS CABINET The artists incubator for the future cities.
What would be like the role of art in our future cities? How artists will find inspiration? Do cities of the future will give an opportunity to them? How to create a microcosm of creativity and self-expression inside a 21st century vertical city? The Arts Cabinet is an art incubator and residence for artists, designed as an experimental permanent art installation conceived throw a lightweight, removable and parametrically designed devices, that shows and reacts in a transparent and clear way how art is created and shared. We propose a place for everybody, an open space that welcomes any artistic expression for experimentation and debate.
The Arts Cabinet is also a space to be occupied, intervened and modified, so this relation with the space might become part of the artist’s work. In that way, it will be not only an art container but also the content itself, in a round trip dialogue. It is, therefore, a dynamic installation, alive, adaptable and in constant mutation.
Program definitions.
Program requirements:
The Artist Incubator
An artist’s incubator inside an 21st century skyscraper should assume that art is not a static and constant human activity, but actually an activity in a continuous search and adaptation to the present global context. Assuming that, The Arts Cabinet will occupy the atrium space through all kind of art’s experiences. The Arts Cabinets will be a cluster of art experiences in the way of a lightweight pavilions set, that will be opened up from a vertical structure called The cabinet. The cabinet will retain them when they are not in use, and also will hold the working spaces, the technical and mechanical rooms. As a result, the atrium becomes a place full of interactive activities, where the wall could become a screen, and the floor a stage, creating an atmosphere full of creativity.
1. Galvanized steel pipe. 2. Metal joint.
Construction details:
1. Galvanized steel prefab floor. 2. Metal joint. 3. Galvanized steel pipe.
1. Galvanized steel prefab floor. 2. Metal joint. 3. Polycarbonate sheet. 4. Aluminum frame
1. Metal curtain track. 2. ETFE pillow. 3. Aluminum frame.
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The technical equipments and public furniture are stored inside the cabinet.
The control and technical booth, where all the sound and screening features are managed.
The cabinet interior includes workshops and meeting rooms.
The automated curtain track path allows multiple space configurations.
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1. Metal joint. 2. Polycarbonate sheet. 3. Aluminum frame 4. Metal base
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The Cabinet is as the artist’s toolbox: A big wardrobe with studios and workshops, rehearsal and ideation rooms, video and sound editing booth.
Introduction Traditionally a cabinet of curiosities were encyclopedic collections, regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world. The classic cabinet of curiosities emerged in the sixteenth century, although more rudimentary collections had existed earlier. The Arts Cabinet will recreate that theater of the world, giving numerous possibilities to artistic and creators, providing with tools and resources but also providing to talented people a place where to create. Thereby it will be a set of artefacts, equipments, tools and spaces to enable, develop, promote and exhibit various artistic expressions. It will be an interface between two situations: between the ideas and the concrete, between the artist and the audience, between fiction and reality, between the static and the dynamic, between the thought and the actions.
Design Process > FILL WITH ART The creative concept of the project originates on the idea of filling the atrium´s emptiness with art experiences and cultural expressions. Looking for new poetic, inspiring forms and materialities, the starting premises are: a creative and inspirational atmosphere; the use of lightweight materials for not compromising the building structure; develop an easy mounting and maintenance structure; keep the atrium´s function as a meeting point and a connector. The program defines three removable pavilions connected throw a vertical light structure acting as an interface, and they will be open up and inflated on demand, in a simply and easy way. These pavilions will act as a diaphanous limit between cultural activities; creating new spatial relations and new sensory experiences. They are three different types of pneumatic structures, designed to attend different activities related to art, from film screening to a painting workshop. Each one has its own infrastructure in order to work separately as they can
The Performance Hall Def: Noun/ The action of entertaining other people by dancing, singing, acting, or playing music . When no pavilions are displayed the place becomes the fourth space, made it possible by the multiple configuration cellular curtain.
Design process:
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The ARTS CABINET The artists incubator for the future cities. The Pavilions The forms of the Pavilions are a celebration of lightness and diaphanousness. The functional and versatile architectural spaces are a series of parametric structures that responds to the interior, the program requirements and the ambient. The pneumatic and inflated structures create a series of internal and external spaces, each one with a particular character and functionality, that assists in the creation of new artificial landscapes for art installations or exhibitions.
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Multiple space formats configuration: 1. Performance Hall configuration. No pavilions & closed space.
2. Open space configuration. No pavilions & open space.
3. Film exhibition configuration.
4. All pavilions configuration. 3 simultaneous activities.
5. Mixed configuration. 2 simultaneous activities.
6. Mixed configuration. 2 simultaneous activities.
Introduction to pneumatic structures.
Why use a pneumatic structure?
Pneumatic structures are membranes that are stabilized by the pressure of compressed air. The difference between the pressure of the enclosed space or membranes and the exterior is responsible for giving its shape and stability. The use of thin membrane materials is supported by the pressure difference, and membranes could support both tension and compression and thus withstand bending moment.
1- To address a lightness and translucent architecture aesthetic. 2- To improve the user experience, through creating sensitive spaces and inspirtational atmospheres. 3- Program flexibility and usability. 4- A relative low cost, easy installation and maintenance.
Types: 1- Air supported structures, 2- Air inflated structures.
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1- They have a higher pressure than the atmosphere supporting the envelope. It needs air locks or doors to help maintain the internal pressure. The air must be constantly provided and the structure has to be anchored on the floor. 2-Supporting frames consists of air under high pressure. The internal pressure of the structure remains the same as the atmospheric pressure.ure.
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Axonometric view:
The Intimate Pavilion Def: Adjetive / Closely acquainted; familiar. Having a cosy and private or relaxed atmosphere. An introspective place to be grasp by new ways of creativity.
The Intimate pavilion is a temporary inflatable space that has a like-a-hug shape and a zenith opening, creating a space with an intimate and surreal atmosphere.
Technical Specs.: Structure Type: Air inflated structure Main material: PVC-coated polyester Pumping equipment: Yes Floor anchor: Secured to the floor by heavy weights Dimensions: H: 6,20 m W: 6,80 m D: 8,20 m
Low poly modeling process: 1. Primitive shape
2. Delete faces
3. Face subdivision
5. Crease edges
4. Extrude
7. Merge vertices
6. Soft Scaling
8. Air pressure
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The Exhibition(ist) Pavilion Def: Noun/ A showing of a film, a video or dancing bodies. A pavilion to watch and / or be watch, a motley atmosphere to experience other cultures, worlds or realities.
Axonometric view: The Exhibition(ist) pavilion is a moving pneumatic cellular-shape curtain that creates a place where several programmes are staged, like a film screening, a music show, dance performances or artist conferences.
Technical Specs.: Structure Type: Air inflated cellular structure. Main material: Efte / Aluminium Pumping equipment: No Anchor: Curtain track system Dimensions: H: 9,00 m W: 0,50 m D:10,00m
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Multiple space configurations through the different positions of the curtain:
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The Synergistic Pavilion Def: Adjetive / Relating to the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects. A pavilion for the collective and cooperative work, an ethereal place for inspiration and / or investigation.
Axonometric view: The Synergistic pavilion is a temporary pneumatic torus that creates an ethereal transparent space where people gather, have experiences and search for their own works of art.
Technical Specs.: Structure Type: Air supported structure Main material: Nylon / Aluminium Pumping equipment: Yes Floor Anchor: secured using ground anchors Dimensions: H: 2.90m External diameter: 8,50m Internal diameter: 1,70m
Low poly modeling process: 1. Primitive shape
2. Scale on Z axes
3. Moving faces
4. Combine meshes
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