Strandbar | Bar, 2003
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View into the courtyard

 

 

Seen from the courtyard

 

 

Programatic layout

 

 

Still from particle formfinding animation

 

 

volumetric interpretation of particles

 

 

Suggested usage

 

 

Plan view
 
 
 
 
 

with reini blaha &christoph treberspurg

Sand as an unstable media needs to be influenced by a force in order to get into, and further stay in shape. Thus the bar should be a frozen time frame of highly accelerated sand particles.
The courtyard was seen as a field of possibilities in which the programmatic features of the pavilion are layed out by various force fields. Further the sand is added to the system by particle emitters.
The emitted particles populate this field according to their attraction/ repulsion of those force-fields and begin to form the shape of the pavilions body.
The bar‘s shape represents and evolves out of the programmed activities.