International Team Represents Hungary in Venice

The multinational team, working under the aegis of doubleNegatives Architecture, has developed a system of sensors that record existing spatial elements at a particular site as well as movements within this space. The information from these sensors is then fed into an algorithm and an appropriate structural design is created.

 

Sensors in the Hungarian Pavilion and the surrounding park in Venice will process and evaluate the events that occur in the space and construct a virtual structure, or Corpora. The resulting image will be projected inside the pavilion, where visitors can also manipulate the structure.

 

Though Corpora may sound unconventional, curator Gyula Július sees in doubleNegatives Architecture's work a shift towards traditional architectural thinking.

 

"We are witness to the convergence of architecture, design and media art. We have advanced in the direction of buildings that behave organically, interactively speaking with their environment, following changing human requirements, in the course of which a holistic approach supersedes secularized viewpoints deriving from the division of tasks and labour," Július writes in the catalogue.

 

The doubleNegatives Architecture team is led by Japanese architect Sota Ichikawa, who has devoted a decade to the study of new means and methods for surveying of space. The other members are Japanese graphic artist and designer Kaoru Kobata, Swiss software developer Max Rheiner and Hungarian software artist Ákos Maróy.

 

Author: Eszter Götz / Photo: Péter Kollányi (MIT)