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Henry
van de Velde institut
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lab[au]
laboratory
for architecture and urbanism
Manuel Abendroth
Jérôme Decock
Carl De Smet
Alexandre Plennevaux
Pieter Heremans
http://www.lab-au.com
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27.01- 31.01.2002 ADSL seminar week
lab[au] invited by:
the antwerp school for architecture
Henry van de Velde institute
Mutsaardstraat 31
2000 Antwerpen
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the ADSL, 'Antwerp Design Seminars and Lecture' ...
> week to lead a workshop about:
MetaDeSign || e.space, CONSTRUCTions
... > about ADSL
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> about the workshop
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>>> see the result of the student workx
for:
the spa[z]e 360°
music performance at café-d-anvers [b]
... > about the spa[z]e 360° music performance
...> get
the official .pdf
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ADSL
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ADSL - 'Antwerp Design Seminars and Lecture
ADSL is an international event, which aims to stimulate cross boundry
thinking in design, and to familiarize students with an interdisciplinary
approach to design problems.
It is a one-week event taking place January 27th to 31 2003. Each invited
workshop-leader organized a one-week workshop on a particular design-related
subject.Students subscribe to one workshop and follow its complete programme,up
to the presentation on Friday afternoon.
The Antwerp Design
Seminars and Lectures intend to act as a forum for staff and student
exchange on an international level.At the same time it is an informal
platform to discuss actual problems related to design education. The
Antwerp Design Seminars and Lectures have a wide ranging scope from
research and problem-solving case studies to practical training of specific
skills and/or methods.
Participants:
The participants for the 2002 editions were Professor Laura Lee from
the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,USA; Professor Ebbe H arder
from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen;Professor Augustin
I oan from the University of Bucharest;Professors Constantin Spiridonidis
and Maria Voyatzaki from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki;Professor
James Horan,Dean of the Department of Architecture of the Dublin University
of Technology;Architect Wim De Mul,graduate from the AA School in London
and Designer Michael Anastasiades,graduate from Imperial College London;Professor
Ruth Morrow from the School of Architecture of the University of Sheffield;
Professor Jane Burnside from the Queen ’s University in Belfast;Professor
Nur Caglar ,Vice-Head of the School of Architecture of the Gazi University
in Ankara,and Architect Richard Loyen ,graduate from the Welsh School
of Architecture,University of Cardiff, Manuel Abendroth, lab[au]
brussels. The Antwerp Design Seminars and Lectures are an international
event taking place each year at the Higher Institute of Architectural
Sciences Henry van de Velde. Its aim is to stimulate cross boundary
thinking in design,and to familiarize students with an interdisciplinary
approach to design problems.
...> get
the official .pdf
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about
the workshop
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'e_space construct[ion]s'.
The title combines different words:
e = electronic
espace = space in french which gives the following reading electronic+space
= espace = e.space
construct = concept
construction = practice
ion+ = positive charge of electricity
The workshop deals on the specificities in the conception and production
of electronic space as a new field of investigation in spatial constructs
combining codes / language drawn from communication and information
sciences - cognitive science with that of process methodologies - design
and spatial constructs - architecture.
The workshop thus displays the theme of new space constructs relative
to new social, cultural, spatial structures and flows as much as it
operates on the level of language. In this manner it focus on the inherent
logics of computation and communication technologies in the visualisation
and formalisation of inFORMation processes in textual, graphical, spatial
and multi-dimensional representations.
As a starting point of the workshop a schematic 3D model of the city
of Antwerp is proposed in order to enlarge transform the mimic representation
into a specific space within the electronic media while combining it
to graphics, visuals, video and sound structures to be experienced in
real-time multi-user online devices.
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go.to lab.files
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the workshop
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4 days workshop about real-time architecture where the students by forming
5 groups has realized in three days a vision of the city of antwerp
specific to IC technologies. Using different medias allowing to introduce
the parameter of time in combination with 3D models like 3d sound, animated
objects, animated textures...the students investigated urban structures
according to the common concept ' density '.
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thank you for your great engagement _ it was a nice week with you all
lab[au]
list of students:
Aerts Jan , Alpers
Nicole , Baert Wim , Debacker Tom , Decorte Pieter , Doumpioti Cristina
, Decorte Jeg , Koch Eva , Peeters Nick , Pérez Morales Javier
, Poorters Kim , Rogge Kirstin ,Stockbroekx Koen , Suykerbuyk Filip
, Swaenepoel Thomas , Veeckmans Heidi , Verbrugghe Stijn , Vermang Els
, Vlassak Pieter , Wils Peter , Zaroukas Manos
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| mutable dance city ... || datacity ... || tunnelvision ... || kinder
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| mutable dance city |
Like a suprematist
vision of tension and movement the project investigates urban structures
as a dynamic field of progressing patterns in time. The specific temporal
programming of each pattern and the behaviour control of each object
through sound analysis thus creates a kind of random system, a mutable
dance city.
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| datacity |
The project represent
the urban red light district of Antwerp as a statistic diagram according
to different urban activities and elements like: light, traffic and
emotion. The dynamic diagram field thus confront the static representation
of the built space to changing functions and activities in time, a living
structure.
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| tunnelvision |
The project oppose to the representational 3d model of the Antwerp red
light district a new architecture, a multi-directional super structure
proper to the gravityless electronic space. The analysed urban space
thus is reflected according to its ambiances, colours, sounds and rhythms.
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| kinder |
Like a subjective view of the area, the central spiral object reflects
the path, the experienced space of the students, of the area. In order
to reflect the impressions of light an signaletics different photos,
like a photo-reportage, are mapped on the extruded path.
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| pulsation |
Different moving image panels, displaying hookers, crosses the area
creating a rhythm, a pulsation, reinforced by 3d sounds according to
the ' heart ' activity of the red light district.
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about
the space, navigable music performance
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at the end of the
workshop the different spaces will be presented in the beginning of
the spa[z]e live performance which constitutes the end event of
the ADSL week.
where:
.......... café-d-anvers _ Antwerp [b]
when:
......... 30.01.2003 _ start: 2h
what:
......... spa[z]e
360°:
spa[z]e 360°
propose an installation based on the immersion in electronic space on
the one hand through a quadraphonic sound system and on the other hand
3,4,6,8 projection screens disposed to form a panoramic (360°) space
all rendered in real time. In this manner the public gets immersed in
the 3D visual and sonic environment of spa[z]e music. In the centre
of the disposal the musician's place, edit and mix live images and sound
in and through the navigation in the e.space. The public follows the
navigation of the musicians and share the rendered music as the sensation
of movement and speed in the non gravity e.space of the sPACE,navigable
music project.
The 'spa[z]e 360° project is based on a software, developed by lab[au]
in order to make through network rendering a 360° projection in
real time possible. Synchronisation within navigation and mainly the
one of sound is critical in networked devices as each computer process
its own 3D computations. The project thus is based not only on networked
3d rendering but also on complex time programming. As any number of
computer can be used, the 360° projection can be made out of 3,4,6,8
or even 32 screens/computers. Slave computers can also provide sound
extending the project to hexa, octa, dodecaphonic sound.
.........spa[z]e
music:
SPA[Z]E music is
based on collaborations between lab[au] and different electronic musicians,
influenced by electro / d n' b / IDM and brain music, who composes specific
sonic-spaces, navigable music. Based on the sPACE, navigable music project
the collaboration focus on the exploration of musical patterns in and
through e.space and relate them to image sequencing in order to create
an immersive sonic and visual environment. The composing of music through
navigation in e.space and spatialization through the quadraphonic sound
system thus constitute a performative sonic space, which the musicians
create each time live through their navigation. It thus relates, synchronizes,
space to music and cinematic techniques dealing not only with new ways
to compose, share, perform and diffuse music through electronic space
but also questions the construct of music and space itself _ 'space_music'.
The exploration
of 'space-music' has its origins in the experimental electronic music
of the fifties, where musicians like Varèse, Stockhausen, Xenakis…
have explored audio visualization and spatialization systems in order
not only to relate the logics of space to the ones of music and imaging
but also to link it to computation technologies, synthesized and programmed
music. The Spa[z]e music compositions thus relate the logics of inFORMation
processes, computation, communication (networking) and editing (recording)
to the one of space and music building up an immersive space; a navigation
through the digital matrix.
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