vienna AUSTRIA

SPAN
30 March – 11 September
MAK Gallery
Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

For the MAK Gallery, SPAN is planning a spatial intervention transferred into a black box. “Formations” will unfold its meaning in various scenarios consisting of models, animations and architectonic elements, providing the observer with novel insights into a laboratory of contemporary architectural production. The individual stations and levels of the exhibition, based on organic patterns of movement, refer to one another and oscillate between abstract, dynamic forms and hybrid structures.

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austrian pavilion, shanghai expo 2010
SPAN & Zeytinoglu [matias del CAMPO, sandra MANNiNGER, arkan ZEYTINOGLU]
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matias del CAMPO: Topology is the main driving force of the design of the Austrian pavilion, a major area of mathematics concerned with spatial properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, for example deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing. It emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as space, dimension, and transformation.

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berlin GERMANY

Housing in Vienna, SPAN designed exhibition design on show at AEDES Berlin.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
6:30pm – 9:30pm

The design of the cairo pods provides the chance to explore opportunities within the aggregation of repetitive objects that imply the creation of heterogeneous figurations. the cairo tessellation, known in mathematics also as example of equilateral pentagons that tile the plane, allow for a high variety of the topology of the plane. In the case of the cairo pods we the geometric plane was extended in the third dimension and delaminated to produce specific elements emerging out of the basic planar geometry. Forming three distinctive elements to comprise one pod. the pods purpose is to serve as exhibition vitrine in varying spaces.

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matias del CAMPO will give a lecture describing the design process and execution of the austrian pavilion for the shanghai expo 2010 by span & zeytinoglu.

topology is the main driving force of the design of the austrian pavilion, a major area of mathematics concerned with spatial properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, for example deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing. it emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as space, dimension, and transformation.

tuesday, april 13, 2010
10:00am – 11:00am
tu-vienna, institut für kunstgeschichte, bauforschung und denkmalpflege

wien AUSTRIA

the sound: frame festival is the fourth year of existence, has become one of the most popular audio: visual festivals in europe. already in 2008 the festival was in the british dj mag “best vj chosen event 2008″ and the international network is visible from year to year.

on invitation by eva FISCHER, the main curator of the sound:frame festival, sandra MANNINGER of span will join into a panel discussion entitled: “space, projection and virtuality. discussion on relations of design, music and architecture.”
the panelists include ambientartlab and lilli HOLLEIN (neigungsgruppe design, vienna). the discussion will be moderated by iver OHM (dieangewandte.at)

vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER: the cairo pods gave us the chance to explore opportunities within the aggregation of repetitive objects that imply the creation of heterogeneous figurations. the cairo tessellation, known in mathematics also as example of equilateral pentagons that tile the plane, allow for a high variety of the topology of the plane.

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vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

matias del CAMPO & sandra MANNINGER: the mobile exhibition design for the austrian winery boom provided span with possibilities to explore performative surfaces and economy of form. to fulfill the multiplicious demands span relied on the concept of minimizing the number of elements, implying the tasks in two surfaces. the design process resulted in an elegant topology of the surface, subsequentialy encoding the form.

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