09 n|Edg

nEdg | Galerie Roger Tator | Lyon, France | Sept-Dec 2009

Production ($): Gallerie Roger Tator

Design: MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY™

Design team: Marc Fornes (principal) & Claudia Corcilius, Mathew Staudt
Research & development on non uniform polygonal tessellation: Marc Fornes
Computational descriptive geometry (rhinoscript): Marc Fornes
Unroll & Nesting (RhinoNest): Skylar Tibbits
Digital fabrication: Jared Laucks / Continental Signs
Assembly in Lyon: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Marie Bassano, Anne Vialle + many…#

All images: Marc Fornes ©2009 All rights reserved

Many thanks @Gallerie Roger Tator:  Eric Deboos, Laurent Lucas, Marie Bassano

Many thanks for the help to:

Anne Vialle, Simon Feydieu, Lou Lucat, Tamara Maes, Sophie Roset, Charlotte Marrel, Benedetto Bufalino,… 

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“n|Edg” as sum of its parts:

- 2 surfaces (Top & Bottom)
- 2 people travelling
- 4 suitaces from New York to Lyon
- 81.6kg
- 38.274 m2
- 22 sheets 4’*8’ Golden Aluminum
- 6 days to CNC cut
- 2796 individual panels (from 2 to n edges)
- 2796 tags (3 to 5digits)
- 5375 holes
- 6500 rivets (or 13 boxes)
- 5 rivet guns
- 10 days assembly
- 10 people

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n|Edg

15 septembre au 15 decembre 2009 | Lyon, France
(as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)

GALERIE ROGER TATOR
36, Rue d’Anvers 69007 Lyon
T. (+33) 04 78 58 83 12
www.rogertator.com

La galerie Roger Tator bénéfi cie du soutien :
du Ministere de la culture, Drac Rhône-Alpes,
de la Région Rhône-Alpes et la Ville de Lyon.

Installation co-produite par Synesthésie

Above: top & bottom surface reconstruction

“n|Edg” assembly is written within continuous series of investigations at different scale:

- the overall: development of protocols of surface relaxation – in order for the surface to generate best fit curvature in response to fix hanging or support points (floor, ceiling, walls) as curvature – despite generating apparent complexity – also provides natural structural stiffness.

- surface description (or sampling): re-understanding the resultant surface as series of points – which densities are relative to the degree of curvature – the more curvature the more points and eventually parts.

- surface reconstruction (or tessellation): previous work focused on describing complex surfaces with flat components – after working for different “high end” architectural and design practices – the only way to keep pushing non standard environments is to introduce the economy of parts as part of the equation – therefore early tests were first looking at ways to triangulate complex surfaces – and therefore strategize on panels cut within flat sheets of material – which very quickly evolved toward what is now the trendy “arrays of quads” components paradigm. “n|Edg” is now investigating the reconstruction of a surface with polygonal parts going from three edges to (n) number of edges.

- informed customization: each part is similar though not identical – its change of size and proportion is therefore allows to describe different radius of curvature – but also local re-reading of orientation is driving the length and width of branches – the flatter, the wider in order to provide more surface alike coverage.

pattern extract

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