Folded Space by MSW

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Published on: March 23, 2009

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Folded Space is a project by MSW that interacts with perception of Torre Pompéia building in São Paulo/Brasil.

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It uses video projection composed of geometrical shapes which, as they move and re-shape, transform the building onto which they are projected. The building in turn influences and transform the projections as well.

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Unless noted otherwise all the photos in this article are property of Mader Stublic Wiermann.

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If architecture is wrapped in moving light thus relativized, charged, how does it maintain it’s ground?
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Photo copyright: Nilton Silva

The torre Pompéia was constructed as a new building by the Italian architect Lina Bò Bardi in the eighties.

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Photo copyright: Nilton Silva

The video installation “folded space” uses the tension-filled constellation of massive parts of the building and bridge arrangements for a temporarily fresh interpretation.

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The projected video consists of abstract two-dimensional structures, which arrange themselves in spacial constellations over a choreography of about 12 minutes.

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Change of motifs and perspective are performed and thus shifting spatiality over time.

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The video creates a new layer on the building, which is “floating” over the surface and is “fractured” at its edges. The video is “folded”: the coherent pictorial space is questioned.

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The installation thus obtains an eventful quality, which allows – dependent on the viewing angle and point in time – spontaneous and unexpected spacial constellations.

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The installation thus obtains an eventful quality, which allows – dependent on the viewing angle and point in time – spontaneous and unexpected spacial constellations.

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The conclusiveness of the projected light spaces, which originate from a computer simulation, are “broke open” and reinterpreted.

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“folded space” is created as an experiment and pursues the question in how far architectural forms still exists and communicate their urban relevance in a perception that is increasingly affected by media-based events.

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Photo copyright: Nilton Silva