Pien Niehe
Europe Press Office,Amsterdam
Arup is presenting two pavilions at the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) exhibition, where over 25 experimental structural objects are shown in the Amsterdam concert hall 'Muziekgebouw aan het IJ' during July and August.
The structural objects are part of a contest of innovative structures with a complex geometry, mostly threedimensional 'tissues' based on mathematical ranges, referencing the works of artists such as Escher, Kenneth Snelson, Iannis Xenakis and Gaudi.
The exhibition is part of a symposium about the future of structural design, organised by the IASS. The objects have been designed by researchers, artists and students, who are connected to leading universities from all over the world. By using the latest manufacturing techniques, the most complex structures seem to be realised in a surprisingly simple manner.
Arup is presenting two pavilions at the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) exhibition, where over 25 experimental structural objects are shown in the Amsterdam concert hall 'Muziekgebouw aan het IJ' during July and August.
Spinning Sound
Arup's 'Leslie Pavilion' explores a new application of the spatial audio effect pioneered by Donald Leslie in the 1930s with his signature Hammond organ amplifier with rotating speakers. The installation consists of two hyperbolic paraboloids (hypars) inside which people can play a keyboard and hear a spatialised rotational effect from an moving speaker. This shifts the audio image based on the speaker axis relative to the architectural shape. Each hypar shape focusses and scatters sound in different axes, but when rotated away from each other the installation focuses all the reflected sound from the loudspeaker and directs it in the centre of the pavilion.This installation will also be present at the Amsterdam Dance Event, which will be held in October this year.
Arup is presenting two pavilions at the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) exhibition, where over 25 experimental structural objects are shown in the Amsterdam concert hall 'Muziekgebouw aan het IJ' during July and August.
foldKITE
Combining research with experience, the 'foldKITE Pavilion' is the outcome of a joint research collaboration between Arup and the Chair of Structural Design at ETH in Zurich. It explores a way to get more insight into the potentials and constraints of the implementation of the design method for structural folding at a building scale. A customised design toolkit was developed, which enabled the designers to interactively modify the geometry of the ultra-lightweight folded structure while giving a direct feedback on the distribution of tensile and compressive internal forces. In this way, formal and structural questions could be simultaneously addressed during the design process.
The winner of the contest will be and announced during the IASS symposium 'Future Visions', which is running from 17th – 20th August at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam.