Situation Room is an installation made by the collaboration of Jana Winderen and Marc Fornes and commissioned by storefront for Art and Architecture with the support of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. It is a project that reflects on the contemporary conditions emerging between the realms of digital and physical existence
© Miguel de Guzmán
through the use of a light-weight, ultra-thin self-supported shell structure. To invite the visitors to question the properties of matter the built environment that surrounds them, the architects collapsed sound, light and form in an object that emits an aura of experiential tension that results in a “sublime dialogue between the comfort of the known and an uneasy interaction with the unknown” .
© Miguel de Guzmán
The combination of the envelope, acoustic membrane, structural design and distributed lighting all work together through a coat of neon-effect; it acts a sound object that absorbs and contrasts the Storefornt Gallery thus blurring perception of the known through its abstract, spatial, formal and acoustic interchangeability and form.
Project info:
Architects: MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
Country: United States, New York
Year: 2014
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán, MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
