Lars Spuybroek, Rotterdam
The exhibition presents the work of NOX, the Dutch architecture office of
Lars Spuybroek.
Three main directions have become more and more intertwined in the NOX
projects of the last five years: 1. the conceptual, as well as instrumental use
of complex computing procedures in design, 2. the irrepressible desire to
build, and 3. the continuous attention for the body and experience as an
integral part of architectural structure. This particular relationship was
already visible in their first realized project - the well-known Water Pavilion in
the Netherlands - with interactive projections and sensors on the curved
walls, ceilings and floors, but it has been developed much further since
then, apparent in many other projects that are slowly increasing in scale.
These three obsessions in the work of NOX are now presented with a new
technique of exhibiting where the surface of perception (image/wall) merges
with the surface of action (plan/floor): the FLURB©.
The FLURB© is somewhat similar to Jackson Pollock´s drippings, his
action-paintings, where a diagram produced on the floor, horizontally, is
rotated into a vertical image, but here the canvas has been freed from its
frame to start crawling both over floor and wall. The FLURB© connects the
invisible formative forces from the computer to the visual results of a built
structure and back again to the invisible feelings of experiencing human
bodies. The FLURB© combines and relates diagrams, computer drawings,
photos, analyses, models into one singular flexible surface. The FLURB©
grows from the inside out like a snowflake, internally organized by the
connections and relationships within each project. The FLURB© looks for
the architecture of the exhibition space as well, it becomes a body itself:
crawling, jumping and sliding, flexible, physical maps that enter the body
space of the visitor. The FLURB© shows bodies and architecture on the
same scale.
The exhibition presents six projects of NOX, each within their own FLURBAL UNIVERSE, next to computer generated models.
Scheduled speakers are:
Kristin Feireiss (Berlin/Rotterdam)
Bernard
Tschumi (New York)
Lars Spuybroek (Rotterdam)
