*멤브레인 그 특유의 유연함, 클라우드 씨티 [ LAVA ] CLOUD CITY in CUSP

cusp 전시장에 전시중인 클라우드 씨티는 미래도시에

대한 우리의 상상력을 엿 볼 수 있다.

자생적으로 성장하는 유기체인 미래도시는

여기 유연한 재료인 멤브레인을 통하여

구체화 되는 동시에 비현실적화 된다.

그리고 상호작용한다.

많이 난해한 작업이라, 오브제를 보는 즐거움으로 만족해야 할 듯.

reviewed by SJ

LAVA director Chris Bosse’s CLOUD CITY is in CUSP EXHIBITION AT CASULA POWERHOUSE, SYDNEY UNTIL 1 SEPTEMBER 2013. CUSP is an exhibition exploring the potential of design in our lives, 12 Australian designers  ‘generate ideas that could change the way we inhabit the world.’

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Exploring the potential of design in our lives, the ‘CUSP designers generate ideas that could change the way we inhabit the world’.

Bosse, director of LAVA, says: ‘a cusp is a breakthrough, a breaking with the past. Sometimes you have to break with the past to be ready for the future. What is the society we live in today and how should we respond? What is architecture in the 21st century?’

Cloud City: An urban ecosystem is a sculptural rendition of Bosse’s vision of a future city ? a soaring, stretched membrane-cloud anchored to the ‘city’ on the gallery floor by highrise towers that have been re-skinned and revitalised.

‘The future is not about what buildings look like, but how they perform, interact and how they connect with each other. Think of a coral reef, where thousands of species thrive in coexistence of each other and the elements, air, water and sun. The reef is like the city of the future.’

‘Our installation asks: can cities of the future be organisms that respond and adapt to their environment?’

The networked city is a connected, inter-dependent organism where buildings are not singular structural entities (designed, serviced and accessed as isolated units), but part of large networked system.

A distributed cloud communicates, shares smart building technology and joint infrastructure, connectivity and data transfer allowing transport, housing and urban infrastructure to adapt in response.

Bosse replaces outdated passive building facades of the skyscraper with high performance smart translucent cocoons that create their own microclimate, generate energy, collect rainwater and improve the distribution of natural daylight. By reskinning these inefficient buildings the past is transformed into ‘super-abled’ buildings.

Other Australian designers featured in CUSP are George Khut, Anupama Kundoo, Healthabitat, Leah Heiss, MATERIALBYPRODUCT, Greg More, Florian Mueller, Stephen Mushin, Alison Page, Super Critical Mass, and Mari Velonaki.

Following the Casula show the CUSP exhibition visits Launceston, Adelaide, Dubbo, Port Macquarie, Brisbane and Mornington Peninsula from 2013-2015.

from  plusmood