ggggallery™ is an inter-
disciplinary "Project Space"
— by shifting exhibitions in conjunction with lectures, talks and workshops, we will explore visionary movements within architecture at the intersection of experiment and technology.
Exhibitions
Current exhibition
Distortion II, Sound and Space defining surfaces
Credits
Collaborators:
Patric Gustafson, Magnus Gustafsson – Akustikmiljö
Martin Tamke, Brady Peters, Stig Anton Nielsen, Lisa Uhlmann – CITA
Niels Jakubiak Andersen, Hasse Selvig Sandell, Dave Stasiuk – Krydsrum Arkitekter
Søren Vestbjerg Andersen, Matthias Haase, Claus Møller Petersen – Grontmij A/S
Support:
The research project is sponsored by Kunstfonden, JJW Arkitekter, Grontmij A/S, Realdania and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture. Further support was provided by Sennheiser Nordic.
About this exhibition
Distortion II is both an acoustic architectural installation and a sound experience. The research creates new interfaces between acoustic science and the built environment by integrating sound performance, design and production. The installation is a complex surface that has been designed to create multiple visual and acoustic effects within a single, open space. Distortion II is part of a larger research project to develop new architectural tools that consider sound as key design parameter.
Today, many people live, learn, and work in open plan spaces. Distortion II demonstrates how an architectural surface can modify sound through the specification of geometry and material. The research project begins with questioning the currently accepted design strategy of acoustically homogeneous spaces; instead it suggests and explores the potentials of acoustically differentiated spaces. The concept of the acoustic subspace is introduced. This is defined as a zone within a larger space that can be differentiated through its acoustic qualities. Distortion II is designed specifically to explore two acoustic extremes: a sound-amplified zone, and a sound-dampened zone. Today, in architectural practice, acoustic performance is usually specified using a single criterion, reverberation time. However, hearing is a multi-dimensional experience and different activities require different sound qualities. This research project recognizes this fact and suggests that, if the factors that create differentiated acoustic spaces can be understood and controlled, then these factors can be embedded within design tools. The design of Distortion II uses various parametric design softwares, many custom-written computer programs, and advanced acoustic simulation software. The research produced during the Distortion II project demonstrates not only new methods for designing space- and sound-defining surfaces, but suggests new architectural and acoustic design goals in terms of how we experience sound in space.
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Exhibition archives
Composite territories, Engaging graded material systems
Credits
A research project by the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) with Paul Nicholas and Martin Tamke in collaboration with Ali Tabatabai (Department 8 of the School of Architecture in Copenhagen)
About this exhibition
This exhibition explores how architects might simultaneously be designers of material as well as form.
Today, material innovation is increasingly occurring around the possibility to meet performance criteria via the design of material, rather than solely through geometric or mechanical solutions. Fibre reinforced composites in particular allow materials to be designed for a specific property and a specific context. But the idea that a property such as bending might be desired, rather than minimized, is new to architecture. So is the idea that material might be incorporated into the form-making process, rather than form being imposed upon it. The object of this exhibition is then to rediscover the capacity of a material to bend, not as failure or a shift from the normal but rather as something that can be tailored to specific design concerns.
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Ambitions to grow, Vernacular strategies for spatial creations
Credits
A research workshop by the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) with
Petra Jenning, David Andreen (London)
Stig Anton Nielsen and Martin Tamke (CITA) in collaboration with the Department 8 (Ali Tabatabai) of the School of Architecture in Copenhagen.
CRESCIT – architectural research & design
In cooperation with smartGeometry
About this exhibition
The exhibition and the workshop behind it investigates real-time, agent driven approaches towards design in a collaborative and hands-on way.
Today’s building practice is at crisis as our design and building systems can’t take into account the increasing complexity and unpredictability of reality. In the search for an alternative we find approaches towards creation that are not linked to centralized control but rely on bottom-up decision making and emergence. We are puzzled by the fact that these self-organizing processes take place without direct communication and intent but rely on interaction on the level of geometry by independent agents. Constant transformation processes become the drivers for good design and performance within a field of competing goals.
The experimental workshop embraces these concepts of nature. Utilizing a system of space filling truncated octahedrons four groups worked in parallel towards competing objectives. Like termites each group had only local awareness, responding only to sensory input from their direct local environment. Where carefully planned and executed lines of action was exceedingly rare the outcome reflected the optimal for each groups design task negotiated through the process of building.
Going beyond biomimetics – merely copying the form or appearance – this workshop explores a physiomimetic architecture that learns from the processes that drive form in nature.
Events
Current exhibition
Distortion II, Sound and Space defining surfaces
Opening: Thursday March 8th.
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Future exhibition
A list of future events will be posted soon, please be patient.
Meanwhile you can contact us for more info: hello[a]ggggallery.com
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Archive
Composite territories, Engaging graded material systems
Ambitions to grow, Vernacular strategies for spatial creations
Contact us
ggggallery™ is an independent think-tank privately supported by Ali Tabatabai and it will function as "Research and Production" arena which, on the one hand, allows development of creative and innovative technological experiments in architecture. On the other hand, covers the need to bring architectural research and practice together. The constellation will provide a solid base and a network that can contribute to the cultural scene and create a tactile place for practicing architects who want to be inspired, challenged and renewed.
Adr. Sølvgade 5. st. tv. 1307 K - Copenhagen
Contact us for more info: hello[a]ggggallery.com