Intervención
realizada por el estudio Barkow Leibinger Architects para la biennal de Marrakech
del 2012, se encuentra ubicada al lado de la mezquita de Koutoubia. Os dejo el
enlace a la biennale: Marrakech Biennale, la intervención se ha realizado con
madera de pino e hilo de algodón de 4 mm.
Project
Description from the Architects:
Marrakech is
a city that offers an indigenous, a madly inventive, and vivid handcraft
culture oscillating between ad-hoc kitsch and the archaic sublime. It is
apparent that these techniques are readily available and could be appropriated
for a proposal for this Biennale. The question for us became: what techniques,
which form of knowledge, can be brought to this situation that could start to
mediate those that we find on-site and as-found? What effects can we produce by
considering geometrical form as found in the architecture of Marrakech and as
constructed by using current algorithm software programming (Grasshopper, Rhino
for example) and then begin to speculate how these forms might be rendered
(made physical) by local craft techniques and materials? In this way the work
reflects aspects, which will be familiar as local and other aspects, which can
be understood as universal. This is not a totally lineal process and there is a
lot of back and forth, trial and error, and testing of different models but
with a similar goal.
One of the
local techniques that became compelling is traditional Moroccan weaving on a
wood frame loom a craft which involves organizing wool or cotton yarn into an
array of (typically colored) lineal lines of yarn warped through a loom weaving
and tying in order to produce a woven fabric surface. The frame of the loom is
a rigid structural frame which holds yarn in place as a series of parallel
lines forming surfaces a technique we reapplied at an architectural scale with
the ambition of producing not 2-dimentional surfaces but rather 3 –dimensional
volumes stretched over a series of fixed wooden frames.
The ultimate site for our work, the ruin at the Mosque
Koutoubia, informs and locates the proposed project and establishes a scale for
the work. In this way the work becomes site-specific to this places and it’s
restraints and opportunities. The broken-off columns establish a grid of 5x5
meters that the installation is adjusted to by halving it to a 2.5 x 2.5 meter
grid, which in the logic of a hyperbolic surface established a 2.5 height in
relationship to viewers who can walk around it or through it. The repetitive
column grid of the ruin also establishes the repetitive cellular grid of the
loom-hyperbolic which is inserted into an open, slightly depressed, platform
surrounded by the grid of the ruin on three sides. Beyond the serial/ cellular
spatial matrix formed by it, of course, is it affected by the strong local
daylight and will cast shadows of itself on the ancient surfaces around it. The
roughly 1 to 2 cm spacing of the yarn defines hyperbolic volumes 18 times. The
spacing is such that it generates enough surface to define these forms while
allowing the forms to appear transparent, ephemeral, and layered when viewing
them from different angles in contrast to the opaque and beautiful masonry
surfaces around it.
We chose a
simple local construction of light hand-peeled pine poles attached to steel
plates and tubes (which establish and fix the geometry) then pull yarn over the
frames which alternate in their positions and tie them off as if they were laid
over a giant loom spaced closely together. The irregular slightly bent forms of
the wood poles softens the hard geometry of our digital computer drawings
sympathetically. The lines of the yarn generate a lineal “ruled-geometry” which
forms the hyperbolic surfaces.
The
installation can be viewed from above the ruin or can be moved around or
through directly as it is at the scale of a series of tents. The very public
nature of the site insures that the project can be seen by day or night and
will be both familiar and foreign in this beautiful place.
Project
Details:
Architects:
Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin
Team
members: Regine Leibinger, Frank Barkow
Project
architect: Gustav Düsing
Project
title: Loom-Hyperbolic
Year: 2012
Materials:
3-4mm Cotton yarn, 100mm Hand cut, Wood (Pine) Poles, Welded steel joints of
plate and tubing (all materials and fabrication are on-site or local
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