5.30.2011

sƃuıʍɐɹp ʍǝu

I'm pondering on if I should flip my system upside down...

5.26.2011

Exhibition at Form/Design Center in Malmö @ the Vernissage

Thank you everyone for a wonderful evening.
Free beer and pretzels always gets the mood right.

We actually had some great guests to the vernissage: sir Peter Cook, Erick Carcamo and Abelardo Gonzalez showed up along with a couple of hundred other beloved.




5.25.2011

Exhibition at Form/Design Center in Malmö

Tomorrow, the 26th of May, my old gang is having an exhibition of our bachelors projects, from 2010, in Form/Design Center in Malmö. The vernissage is at 18 p.m.
Me and Marcus Westberg have done the hanging and mounting.



5.17.2011

Conceptual Plan of Photobioreactor

As you might remember I'm working on an air-purification system set in a central park, called Altonaparken in Malmö.
The air-purification system I'm using is called a Photobioreactor system. Explained in a easy way, it is a system of water bound algae that eats carbon dioxide and multiplies in mass. Since the algae consists of 40% oil it's harvested from the water and made into bio-diesel and protein. A bonus is that It also creates pure oxygen. In other words: It cleans the air with a lot of valuable "biproducts".

I have been looking for different type of characteristics in the context and found three main types: The meeting between park and water, the enclosed area in-between trees and the open square.
I have tried to do a rational distribution of the system over the three territories, tying them all to the main core, at the square. The tubes connecting all the parts are creating a complex infrastructure, cutting the park into multiple segments.

This drawing is a mix of a diagram, an infrastructural organization and a conceptual site-plan, showing a first outtake for distribution of the program.

Conceptually the form and architectural parts are all products of the function. Since the program has a high level of technicality, I have an ambition to do the drawings in a quite mechanical manner.

5.11.2011

Questioning the line between art and engineering

I know I'm publishing this 4 years after everyone else, but great things have to brought up again. These are some beautiful works of Theo Jansen. What he refers to as Kinetic Sculptures.

STRANDBEESTEN_TRAILER from Alexander Schlichter on Vimeo.

5.08.2011

New drawings

These drawings are diagrammatic section drawings, handling the relation between form and function.
I'm still dealing with the Eco-Activism. And here I'm on my way to implement a photobioreactor in a new type of body.
I'm researching how the function can manipulate the form and how these "walls" in the next step can create "rooms".


Diagrammatic representation

... without dealing with program or context.

The drawing is a representation of four (just to pick a number) independent units, carrying out a flow both within and in-between the system. They are all born from the same unit and are represented as static transformations, showing a topological diversity. The units are shown as "open" and the system in its whole does the same, representing a invite to the public.