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Pratt institute's GAUD students end term with floating gallery installation
Once annually, students of pratt institute’s graduate architecture & urban design program collaborate to create an installation.
The exhibit explores digital fabrication methods, as well as showcase work accumulated from the previous term. it also coincides with the publication of ‘in process’, pratt’s annual print index of student work.
This year, GAUD students, led by course professors michael szivos and ryan whitby–both of new york city’s SOFTlab–chose to create a hanging installation. the collection of displayed works come together in a spatial catalog via precisely rotated, hanging panels. their orientation reveals and obscures bits and pieces of each piece and allows visitors to move freely underneath and around the volume.
The installation’s 800+ panels are kept in line by a simple system of steel ball bearings, and string which connect to an organized grid of CNC cut disks above. vaulted cavities give the piece a sense of motion, and give visitors space to venture and view works placed on pedestals below. the gradual rotation of panels towards the apex of each vault produces a visually dynamic filter to frame works in different ways regardless of the spectator’s position.
Each image was custom cut, then assembled onto the laser cut panels. all parts used to create the exhibition were made using computer modeling techniques that highly the importance of digital fabrication in the program. the design team was composed of GAUD students: elisa yi feng, zachary grzybowski, jeremy hill, eunmee hong, sasimanas hoonsuwan, wooseong kewon, maria nikolovski, danica selem, milad showkatbakhsh, t. craig singlair, and emily walek.
