The Gate
https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/analysis/dg/cfhm/exhibitions/2017/9/
daniel.monsivais-velazquez@aalto.fi 046 6139502
Aalto SCI
Aalto ARTS Aalto ELEC
Aalto ARTS Daniel Monsivais
Kuura Parkkola Mare Nuñez
Matilda Tuure
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ALA Team
matilda.tuure@aalto.fi 050 3012310
ALA: field, area, space, domain, sector, sphere, compass
Aalto CHEM Saana Sainio
The Gate
The Gate
Daniel Monsivais Kuura Parkkola Mare Nuñez Matilda Tuure Saana Sainio Materials: knit-net-mesh // engraved and laser cut acrylic //wooden frames
The installation is inspired in the possibility of travelling from our world, where 3 dimensions coexist, into another one which might be even impossible to describe as life there would be totally diferent from everything we dare to imagine. Either we are entering this new world or leaving ours.
Through the softness but strong textile and it’s 4-way stretch properties, we are able to create an ethereal vertical portal or gateway that ends in the exit from our world to an unknown one. The exit is the fractal tunnel made out of simple squares that goes down as in a never ending spiral.
Inspiration Sensual Mathematics
Mockups // material experimentation
Mockups // material experimentation
Mockups // material experimentation
Mockups // the search for the sculpture
Mockups // the search for the sculpture
Chosen Mockups
Process sketches // diagrams
Process sketches // diagrams
options for fractal
The geometric neverending tunnel
Technical Drawings
Technical Drawings
Technical Drawings
Technical Drawings // FINAL FRACTAL DESIGN
Visualizations
Final Protoype // material and size options
Final Protoype
Final Protoype
Materiality and technical implementation
The scultpure is designed and constructed mainly with a soft and neutral color textile to give the impression of a clean , clear and ethereal vertical tunnel. For this, we chose a white see through net fabric that has an exceptional elasticity and strength.
Seams makes the textile lose its elasticity so we will avoid them as much as we can.
On the bottom we have the acrylic plate engraved with the fractal. Each ring of the fractal has different line thickness to give the illusion of a tunnel that is going down. On top of this plate we have a wooden- frame that with the acrylic will secure the textile down.
On top we have another wooden frame following the same form of the fractal only in a bigger scale.
The upper frame has a 120 cm diameter, while de bottom frame and fractar drawing is 80 cm in diameter.
The textile will stretch and twist as much as we permit it through the wooden frames.
The public will be able to see the fractal engraved through the textile which will be illuminated with lights coming from the top or the sides.
We want the sculpture to be a kind of “ready made” object that you transport and install as easy as it is possible.
ALA = field, area, space, domain, sector, sphere, compass
Daniel Monsivais Mare Nuñez Kuura Parkkola Saana Sainio Matilda Tuure
