Muqana mutation
At the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, I saw and enjoyed a ‘Future & The Arts’ (AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow) exhibition. At the centrepiece was Michael Hansmeyer’s ‘Muqarna Mutation’.
This impressive and enthralling 6 m wide sculptural installation explores how ‘humanity will live tomorrow and what role art will play in the future.’
Muqarna Mutation takes inspiration from the muqarna archetypes (elaborate ornamental vaultings) of historic Islamic architecture.
I learned that with the aid of computation and robotic fabrication, Hansmeyer and his partnering engineering team, ROSO COOP created a successful intricate geometric algorithm to apply on a total of 15,000 extruded aluminium tubes and 300,000 tiles to achieve their final model.
My image is just a small part of this exciting, bewildering and curious Hansmeyer piece and of note is that for further artistic effect, I have turned the image – in the original piece, the aluminium tubes hang downward.
It wasn’t until I saw my image on the computer screen, that I realised the more I looked at it, the more an optical illusion became clear, and my brain found it hard to work out in which direction the pipes were going. This effect wasn’t apparent when viewing in person, simply looking upward in to the array of tubes.
Michael Hansmeyer is an architect and programmer who explores the use of algorithms and computation to generate architectural form. (b: 1973).
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Muqana mutation
At the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, I saw and enjoyed a ‘Future & The Arts’ (AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow) exhibition. At the centrepiece was Michael Hansmeyer’s ‘Muqarna Mutation’.
This impressive and enthralling 6 m wide sculptural installation explores how ‘humanity will live tomorrow and what role art will play in the future.’
Muqarna Mutation takes inspiration from the muqarna archetypes (elaborate ornamental vaultings) of historic Islamic architecture.
I learned that with the aid of computation and robotic fabrication, Hansmeyer and his partnering engineering team, ROSO COOP created a successful intricate geometric algorithm to apply on a total of 15,000 extruded aluminium tubes and 300,000 tiles to achieve their final model.
My image is just a small part of this exciting, bewildering and curious Hansmeyer piece and of note is that for further artistic effect, I have turned the image – in the original piece, the aluminium tubes hang downward.
It wasn’t until I saw my image on the computer screen, that I realised the more I looked at it, the more an optical illusion became clear, and my brain found it hard to work out in which direction the pipes were going. This effect wasn’t apparent when viewing in person, simply looking upward in to the array of tubes.
Michael Hansmeyer is an architect and programmer who explores the use of algorithms and computation to generate architectural form. (b: 1973).
© All rights reserved.