Salt Water Pavilion

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Year: 1997

Typology: Cultural

City: Neeltje Jans

Country: Netherlands

Client: BV Waterland Neeltje Jans

Team:

Project Artist: Ilona Lénárd
Project architect: Prof ir Kas Oosterhuis
Design team body: Kas Oosterhuis, Menno Rubbens
Design team hydra: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, Menno Rubbens
Design team real time behaviour: Kas Oosterhuis, Menno Rubbens
Design team virtual worlds: Kas Oosterhuis, Menno Rubbens, Károly Tóth
Composers: Edwin van der Heide, Victor Wentinck
Sensors: Bert Bongers

Tag That Body: Architecture

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Salt Water Pavilion and Hydra sensorium

TThe saltwaterpavilion evolved as a three-dimensional computer model from the very start of the design process. We morphed, stretched, bent, rescaled, styled and polished.

The delineation of the form is laid down in the digital genes of the design that hold the germ of life. the first idea is the genetic starting point for all subsequent steps in the development. We no longer accept the domination of platonic volumes, the simplistic geometry of cube, sphere, cylinder and cone as the basic elements of architecture. That resolution is much too low. Our computers allow us to command millions of coordinates describing far more complex geometries. the form gene underlying the saltwaterpavilion’s shape is an octogonal, faceted ellips which gradually transmogrifies into a guadrilateral along a three-dimensional curved path.

In the wet atmosphere of the belly the glowing Hydra thrives like a giant seaweed, one gets tangled in the many loops of the Hydra. The Hydra is constantly changing colour and brightness, sounds travels through its entire length. The Hydra is a continuous object connecting the lower and the upper level, its multiple lines tracing through the entire pavilion. The Hydra is a direct translation of an intuitive three-dimensional sketch by Ilona Lénárd.

The Hydra keeps following the visitor, sometimes as a structural element, sometimes as an interface, always transmitting information in the form of sound and light. Within the Hydra multicoloured fibre optics and series of multimedia speakers are the carriers of information. All fibres and speakers are individually controlled by a central computer, which reacts to visitors, changing weather conditions and pre-programmed algorithms.

Salt Water Pavilion

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