Metal

FALSE FLOOR

interactive artwork

When the dustmen come round and find anything with copper in it like electricity cables and boilers they take it to scrap metal dealers. I was looking round some of these scrap yards one day and saw these copper briquettes stacked up in the darkness. It was difficult to even get a look at them because the people there were so certain I was only trying to steal stuff, The copper is graded according to purity and value into different types and put through a baler. If not diverted temporarily by myself they would have ended up in places like Japan and Germany to be re-used in other materials. I decided to make an intervention into the gallery out of the briquettes to fill a whole space. People were able to walk across it with difficulty.

Caliper Studio’s Genetic Stair

caliper studio designed a three thousand square foot duplex apartment renovation

in a building on new york's upper west side. their solution removed all existing

vertical circulation and connected the two floors with a new feature stair, located

centrally in the apartment, free from all walls and supported only at the top

and bottom.

'genetic stair' is made with polished stainless steel, white translucent Corian

and low iron glass.

Maniacal Webbed Metal

Based on a 1995 NASA experiment in which spiders were exposed to various chemicals then were tested based on the patterns of webs they spun. Fun! This project goes by the name SOD_Project and is a three-dimensional re-addressing of the webs these bonked-out spiders spun, but this time in metal. Each of these objects seems to be created as a sort of art-objects, but I bet you could put your apples in there too.
Take a look at each of the patterns made in the chart of 5: Normal, Marijuana, Benzedrine, Cafeine, and Chloral Hydrate, and see the transition into metal here in these bits of project.

Marques de Riscal Hotel

 frank gehry's city of wine complex for marques de riscal winery in elciego, northern spain,
opened to the public in 2006. the idea was to dramatically renovate the winery, which had
changed little since 1860 and encourage tourist to the town, much like his guggenheim
design enticed people to bilbao.

according to gehry, the building's exterior reflects the colours of wine - with huge titanium
panels tinted in pink to represent the burgundy hues of rioja. the silver is meant to be the foil
that covers the cork, while gold represents the zig-zagging mesh that covers all marques
de riscal bottles.
the complex's surface is sheathed in titanium and stainless steel, the 'skin' hung over a series
of giant squares of black rock with metallic wings.