BRIEF__Recent years and the rapid development of digital means of communicationreshaped the way we interact. The built environment is gradually losing its significance as the major framework for human interaction.

 

INDESEM 11 workshop aimed to investigate how architecture could deal withthe changing scene of collective space and the emerging digital network society.

 

CONCEPT__The concept in our project was how the users, physical environment and digital network can interact. The Erasmoscope is an attempt of applying the principles of the kaleidoscope to createa responsive skin in the area at the foot of the erasmus bridge in Rotterdam.

 

Our project tries to define the qualities of the site using both generic and site-specific features such as: reflection, transmodelling, inwards redirection, feed-back, projection, multiplicity and symetry. As a kaleidoscope uses a circle of mirrors containing loose, colored objects using light and reflection for the creation of colorfull patterns, the Erasmoscope reflects and amplifies the most powerfull features of the site: light, wind, sound, wather and motion introducing them into an evolving system that uses reflectional symetry to rewrite parameters of the environment.

 

We belive in maintaining the complexity and flexibility of the empty space, enriching it through repetition and enhancement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHYSICAL LAYER__Our intention is to create the enviromnent in which the site could react to itself in a kaleidoscopic way, using the factors that it finds around himself: the sound of the trams going over the erasmus bridge, the wind, the sun, the shade, the river and the people.  

 

 

SOCIAL LAYER__We consider people participants to the spatial experience. The kaleidoscope becomes more complex when its input is richer, like when more people enter the site. the Erasmoscope reacts on the people who walk through it.

Virtual layer

At a virtual layer the new skin shows human presentce in squares from other places in the world. The symmetry of the kaleidoscope becomes more complex.

 

Project In Collaboration with: Marcos Novak, Martina Giustra, Henk de Haan, Maria Kowalska, Olga Fomina, Anna Misharina, Michal Cicala, Simon Richardus, Chiara Storino, Maria Daria Oancea