"Movement Culture" by ESKYIU
05/04/2015.
Shaw Studios [Hong Kong] China
metalocus, ALEX DURO, DANIEL MADERA
metalocus, ALEX DURO, DANIEL MADERA
The study of architecture ESKYIU was the manager of designing this small installation of sensual curves that received installations for Ido Portal. Using digital tools, elaborated with fabric and rings steels, later it was sewed manually with a lot of skill.
Description of the project by ESKYIU
ESKYIU was commissioned to create, design and fabricate a stage set and installation back drop for Ido Portal located in the Shaw Studios, Hong Kong. With ESKYIU’s ongoing fascination with surface, boundaries, geometries and movement in three dimensional spaces, this project culminated in the design of a spatial construct that defies the boundaries of fabrication and creative execution. The installation design structure responds to the inspired movement of Ido’s art, trajectories of his body movement and plays with the complexities and lightness of his “Movement Culture”. Ido’s work combines philosophy, nutrition, use of nature and a combination of acrobatics, floreio (sub-art of Capoeira) and mixed martial arts and body movement. We created a design to fulfill the design brief by the client to achieve a “futuristic, modern, pure, minimal and serene space”.
The final installation is a fluid structure made of fabric and steel rings. The 12 metres wide installation could be lowered and transformed to give subtle affects of change; yet at its fullest – taut extreme and perfected form, it challenged the perception of space, scale and depth. The installation stage set process utilized digital tools to create the geometry for a smooth surface, whilst using precise hand sewn fabric to seam the joints between fabric pieces. The installation achieves a lightweight dynamic and with the transforming illumination, the installation supports multiple views for the framing of the film documentation and photo shoot through a singular pavilion design.
Text.- ESKYIU
CREDITS. TECHNICAL SHEET.-
Lead Designers.- Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu.
Project Team.- Maggie Hua and Pang Lai Ming.
Installation Size.- 12 metre diameter. 5 metre height. 150 sqm area film studio.
Date.- 2012-2013.
Location.- Shaw Studios, Hong Kong.
ESKYIU is a multi-disciplinary architecture studio that explores how Architecture intersects with transformative cultural landscapes, media, products, print, experimental fabrication systems, educational tools and social sustainability. Founded in New York by Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu in 2005, they established the Hong Kong studio-office in 2007. Their architectural practice operates in an open and collaborative environment, at various scales (product-objects to urban scale projects) working closely with various disciplines in a rigorous and sensitive manner.
They were awarded the prestigious ‘Architectural League Prize’, Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, Design for Asia Award, Perspective’s ‘40 under 40’; curated the 2009 HK & SZ Bi-City Biennale; exhibited widely such as the Venice Biennale; lectured internationally such as the Harvard’s AsiaGSD conference, TEDx, V&A museum, the Asia Society to Universities world wide from Nanjing, Finland to Cambridge. Recently they published INSTANT CULTURE: Architecture and Urbanism as a Collective Process.
Eric Schuldenfrei. Schuldenfrei received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, and completed his PhD from Cambridge in ‘Architecture and the Moving Image’. Founding Partner of ESKYIU. Associate to American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Marisa You. You received a bachelor of Architecture from Columbia College, Columbia University. Master of Architecture from Princeton University. Founding Partner of ESKYIU. Architect member of American Institute of Architects (AIA), an associate member of The Hong Kong Institute of Architects.