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Can a building be a sculpture? Can a sculpture be a building? ˇ Or more precise: can buildings be autonomous sculptures? ˇ Can sculptures be functional buildings? ˇ The building sculptures of Sculpture City Rotterdam form the assertive evidence ˇ They are answering both questions positively ˇ Without a major shift in the professional attitudes of both art and architecture sculpture buildings and/or building sculptures will not be feasible ˇ Both disciplines have to be redefined ˇ New boundaries for their freedom of movement are set by the 1994 update of thinking and technique ˇ First, from the architectural point of view, a definition of a sculpture building: a sculpture building is an object that is generated according to a series of intuitive acts and logical instructions, both in the phase of the virtual design and in the phase of the materialization ˇ The functionality of the building is just one out of thousands of parameters effecting the resulting image of the concept ˇ With each step in the series of instructions and acts the functionality of the building is equivalent to other parameters ˇ There is no hierarchy of arguments but their procedure ˇ The electronic skin of Cloud010 is alive ˇ The sculpture buildings of Sculpture City are granting their own functioning ˇ Form allows function in stead of form follows function ˇ Similarly the sculpture buildings are permitting that they are subject to gravity, that they are shaped to a specific form, and that they eventually are materialized ˇ
Next, the definition of building sculpture, from the point of view of the arts: A building sculpture is an object that is generated according to a series of intuitive acts and logical instructions, both in the phase of the virtual design and in the phase of the materialization ˇ The definition of a sculpture building and the definition of a building sculpture are identical ˇ The autonomy of the sculpture is just one out of thousands of parametric acts effecting the resulting image ˇ With each step in the series of instructions and acts the autonomy of the sculpture is equivalent to other parameters ˇ There is no hierarchy of arguments but their procedure ˇ The building sculptures of Sculpture City are granting their own autonomy ˇ Similarly, the building sculptures of Sculpture City are permitting that they are subject to gravity, that they are functional, and that they eventually are materialized ˇ Probably the most important parameter in conceiving the object is the available budget ˇ In order to design and execute the sculpture buildings the budgets for art and architecture must be equal ˇ This time not a mere 1% art as a humiliating brooch attached to the building, but a full 100% art fused with a 100% building ˇ Sculpture = building // building = sculpture! Only then there will emerge a parrallel fusion between the arguments causing architecture and the motives causing art ˇ Only then there will be sculpture buildings which are both art and architecture ˇ Only then the plans for Sculpture City Rotterdam can be drawn ˇ
Credits
Date: 1994
Site: Rotterdam
Project mamagement: Attila Foundation
Design team: Ilona Lénárd, Kas Oosterhuis, Menno Rubbens
Client: Ram Gallery, Nai