Exhibitions

Traces

2016

“A wave rolls on the surface of the sea, affecting the equilibrium of a floating pendulum causing it to swing. With a pen at its extremity, the pendulum leaves traces of ink on the page below, expressing the rhythm and course of the waves: a translation of the sea.”

Traces proposes an analogue physical device holding a pen that will transcribe physical forces such as waves or wind, translating them into drawings. 

Each drawing is made over a period of two hours enabling the emergence of graphical patterns that provide a two-dimensional representation of the physical phenomenon. The experiment essentially gives rise to consistent maps of movements or time lapses in nature.Every iteration of the experiment produces a new drawing: their series might share graphic characteristics or patterns as well as calligraphic qualities, but every page is a unique outcome, acknowledging the singularity of every moment in nature.

Traces – delineating Incidents is an exhibition that concluded a collaboration between the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona. The exhibition featured projects initiated as an investigation at the MAA of the IAAC in fall 2015 by Edouard Cabay and Rodrigo Aguirre.

 

Team: Edouard Cabay, Rodrigo Aguirre and Alejandro Rondón

With: Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Students: Pedro Levit Arroyo Ventura, Dirk van Wassenaer, Tobias Deeg, Peter Geelmuyden Magnus , Martin Hristov, Vishnu Jadia, Khushboo Jain, Hong Jeng Rung, Sidharth Kumar, Utsav Mathur, Jean Sebastian Munera, Chenthur Raaghav Naagendran, Lina Salamanca, Naitik Shah , Goutham Santhanam, Ekaterina Simakova

Photography: Enric Bolaño

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Scripts

2017

A rotating arm in the middle of a white page holds a pen on an expandable rod, whose rotatory movement is provoked by an electronic board that controls both the speed of revolution and the distance between the pen and the centre of the device. The pen’s circular trajectory creates thin lines of ink as a deformed circle; over time, as many circles overlap, varying densities of ink appear on the page, showing the possible paths that the anatomy of the machine permits.

Scripts is an experiment in which physical parts compose mechanisms that compels a movement of a pen on a paper canvas. The drawing machines are fuelled by low voltage electricity, and their movements are controlled by electronically induced impulses. This enables them to potentially connect to the outside world, able to receive information numerically, sensed from the city, to convert data into drawings.

Scripts – a chronicle  of incidents is a collaboration between the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the Casa elizalde in Barcelona. The exhibition featured projects initiated as an investigation at the MAA of the IAAC in fall 2015 by Edouard Cabay and Rodrigo Aguirre.

Team: Edouard Cabay, Rodrigo Aguirre

With: Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Students: Valerie Frey, Mehmet Berk Bostanci, Gelder Van Limburg Stirum, Pablo Agustin Vivas, Hsin Li and JengRung Hong, based on original work by Nasser Ghannam, Mohamad Rachid Jalloul, Ceren Yildrim and, Guolang Zhang, Cagan Izgi, Athanasios Zervos, Keesje Avis, Kathleen Bainbridge, Irene Ayala Castro, Yasmina Wery, Krati Gorani

Photography: José Hevia and Xavier González

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