I am continuing to explore, with outdoor sculpture, how geometry shapes structure.
The relations length/width of the eight-fold symmetry of "Looping Circles 10x50" revealed not to be sufficient to create a not collapsible structure. The sculpture location is East Spiral at Sun Farm; each circle create a frame for the sun setting and framing.
Topological Meditations explores the geometric expressions of cuts into different types of materials, from aluminum to polycarbonate and paper. The cut in a material has the multiple function of shaping a form as well as providing the structural stability of the form —as the twisting and bending of the two dimensional elements creates rigidity, or illusionary perception of three-dimensionality from a two-dimensional composition.
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
Saturday, November 12, 2011
camminando | Rome Modern Architecture: Palazzetto dello Sport
The 1958 Palazzetto dello Sport (Pier Luigi Nervi and Annibale Vitellozzi) is the modern architecture jewel of quartiere Flaminio. The sixty-meter diameter reinforced concrete dome is made of intersecting radial ribs, which resemble the spiral configuration of sunflowers. A great example of form follows structure follows function!
The wood polyhedric sculpture in front of the Palazzetto dello Sport
Excerpts from the multimedia project
“Axes Mundi: Perceptions and Understanding of Places as Intersections of Space, Time and Culture"
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