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IRIDIUM DOORS INDUSTRY

IRIDIUM DOORS INDUSTRY
ERNESTA CAVIOLA and GIANFRANCO BOTTA

IRIDIUM DOORS INDUSTRY

RELATION OF IRIDIUM DOORS INDUSTRY: Drops, seamless enveloping skins, surfaces in a state of metamorphosis between inside an outside, above and below, liquid and ambiguous.


Or prisms, colliding parallalepiped structures, excavated and dematerialised into decostructed intersections.


A few years ago Terence Riley, the curator of the exhibition entitled "The Un- private House", saw two lines of conflicting research on the modern- day architectural scene: "Moebius or Mies"? In other words, the blob (drop) or box?


May be, as long as form is the issue, they were never really alternatives.


Both are representative of a historically determinate state, immersed in the same way in the aesthetic paradigm of our present- day electronic and immaterial society, and in their own way the both give it their own figurative interpretation.


In the case of the Iridium doors Industry, a layout of seamless, dynamic surfaces set inside a rigid prefabbricatted box (a classic image of industrial production) gives shape to the company offices, viz. a creative and administrative work place, where decisions are made and the business is run, which takes on the changing, interactive forms of the computer flows pulsanting, through it: "the heart and brains of the rear section where the manual, mechanical work takes place", as it might be put metaphorically.


The project is then enhanced by reflections on the pool of water on the outside, and by anthropomorphic shells, fluctuating human figures, huge drawing pins on the inside.


Figure and deformation blend in what looks like story about Snake Agent by Stefano Tamburrini, almost turning into a comic strip in a book with a running text.


MATERIALS: Structure: iron Coating: Plasterboard Aluminum Glass Entrance walkway of wood and iron

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Project Year
2003
Category
Sculptures
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