Roca & Roll: February 2008

Friday, February 29, 2008

Hello group - people

I spoked to Marc, my tutorial teacher - he thought we had a really clear concept. he specially liked the fact of having Roca as a MEETING POINT. And for that he thought we should make some investigation on what kind of things could be seen as a meeting point and what kind of objects to people remember. and he recomended the book:

Robert Venturi:
Learning from Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form.

In general he also asked the questions:
what do you want the people to feel?
what makes people stressed?
how can you solve the problem?
How do we make people think that Roca is the provider of this BIENESTAR?
and how do we provide that?

He also recomended the book:

Four Quartets by T.S Eliot

BOCETANDO...

MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO

italian artist michelangelo pistoletto is currently showing at galleria continua, in beijing. the artist's work makes use of mirrors or mirrored surfaces, often with paintings of life-size figures overlaid. the current show features a new body of works that display references to his past work while expanding on it. occupying the main exhibition space is 'labyrinth', a 5m white cube centered in a room filled with a corrugated cardboard maze. the white cube is lined with mirrors on its interior. 2100 meters of
cardboard wee used to construct the piece.

'the labyrinth' 1969-2007

'the cubic meter of infinity in a mirroring cube' 1966-2007

'black and light, white and dark perspective' 2007

Thursday, February 28, 2008

UNAS COSILLAS TIPOGRAFICAS...

Gro dice mira:

aqui!

y OS PASO ESTE LINKITO:

http://www.spiekermann.com/mten/2008/01/unit_rounded.html

un texto y unas imagenes sobre las tipografías rounded, del gran maestro Erik Spiekermann.

http://web.splashcast.net/full_screen/?channel_code=QJEY6644YT&show_code=JTEQ4129LP

no se como se vea pero me estava haciendo un viaje cosmico aqui con la musica entre cosas que se evolven y las estructuras y las cuatro dimensiones:-)

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

\\\±±±(((LOST IN EL LABERINTO)))±///

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

come out and play !!

hipercubo

En geometría un teseracto o hipercubo es una figura formada por dos cubos tridimensionales desplazados en un cuarto eje dimensional (llamemos al primero longitud, el segundo altura y el tercero profundidad). En un espacio tetradimensional, el teseracto es un cubo de cuatro dimensiones. Se compone de 8 celdas cúbicas, 24 caras cuadradas, 32 aristas y 16 vértices, esto tomando en cuenta el desarrollo del polinomio

(2 x + 1) n

donde el valor de n equivale al número de dimensiones (en este caso particular 4) y x es el largo, alto, ancho... etc de la figura polidimensional equilátera.

No podemos ver un hipercubo porque estamos "encerrados" en tres dimensiones, por lo que solo podemos ver la sombra de lo que seria un hipercubo. Se parece a dos cubos anidados, con todos los vértices conectados por líneas. Pero en el teseracto real de cuatro dimensiones todas las líneas tendrían la misma longitud y todos los ángulos serían ángulos rectos.

bien.... por que cuento esto? creo que ni yo lo sé, pero creo que todo tiene una geometría más compleja de lo que parece, y.... si se descubre un poquito sobre esta geometría, se conocera de donde vienen las formas, y tal vez, no las utilicemos tan mal...........

Monday, February 25, 2008

PIANO XXL INTERACTIVO

JUGAR CON CUBES

Once inside the gates, design and architectural experiments were everywhere. The cubes naturally felt obliged to participate, and so made a basic “no-legs-showing” b-structure -

- and then an experimental take on the “Vertical like Net” shape with a surprising last-box-up variant.

Satisfied with this performance, the cubes found a nice area bathed in light from a very big mirror ball and had a rest. The cubewearers parted from the cubes and went inside the exhibition, leaving the cubes unsupervised in a 4+3 vertically stacked position.

Drama struck 2 hours later when the cubewearers met again under the mirror ball. The cubes were gone! Kidnapped! A very bad situation for the cubewearers, whose basic premiss it is to wear cubes, and therefore cannot be cubewearers without cubes. Time stood still for a moment, untill suddenly a cube was spotted running around in the open space in front of the exhibition, and the chase began. Other cubes were spotted as the first was caught, unveiling the first fake cubewearer as a teenage girl.

When the other cube-nappers showed to be merely young boys and girls, a new understanding dawned on the cubewearers: the young people were just playing, having no bad intentions in mind. They had seen the cubes stacked up, alone, and had wanted to experience the joy of cubewearing themselves. And who were the cubewearers, who themselves knew that joy better than any, to deny them that? And so they all parted in good spirits, a little wisdom and a few new friends richer.

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The story behind the cubes.

May 6th, 2006

The 5th of April was a warm sunny day in Milan, a welcome change for 5 pale young men, just arriving from grey rainy London.
It was the day to kick off the project! After planning and sketching on a desk in London, it was a very different and exciting experience finally to be there, in the streets of Milan, putting on the cubes.
None of us could help laughing as we carefully started to move around in the cubes and practise our different poses/sculptures. A cube almost work like a blindfold, it heavily limits your view, but on the same time it feels like you have a shield around you, like nothing can hurt you. It makes you feel like a blind kid on steroids.

The first aim was the opening day of the Milan Triennalle, a big design exhibition in Parco Sempione, where the plan was to create an invasion of cubes.

But what was not planned was how to open the doors! Without any arms and hands available, the cubes were stuck outside for some time, and so decided to improvise a cube sculpture.

Soon enough, though, a helpful man understood the situation and let the cubes in.

Once inside the Trienalle, the five cubes quickly became the center of attention. A bit dazzled by this attention, they formed one of the classic cube combinations “vertical like Net” in the middle of the impressive entrance hall.

As if this piece of spontaneous design was an insult to the establishment, the cubes were immediately approached by the staff, who made it clear, in several languages, that they did not want cubes in their exhibition. Cubes are not troublemakers and therefore politely receded to a more friendly and somehow familiar atmosphere outside the exhibition.