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PARCEL (Installed at Stockholm Concert Hall Sept 2004 With
PARCEL, the research group Krets installs a three-dimensional
intelligent wall panel system.
PARCEL suggests new ways of establishing relations between the material,
audiovisual and digital techniques that are increasingly forming the
environments around us. The project considers off-the-shelf technologies
normally used in the packaging indus-try and consumer electronics as
integral parts of an architectural design. Punched
plastic sheets equipped with computational intelligence through
microprocessors, printed circuits, and variations of sensors, lighting and
speakers, are folded into volumes. When combined they form a wall-paneling
system integrating information technology and infrastructure as well as
illumination and sound. The folded sheets create depth from surface and
respond to the color scheme of the Stockholm Concert Hall. The rendering
of the color shifts as a result of the inherent curvature in the pieces
and the integrated light. The
formal logics of the PARCEL prototypes are imported from printed matter
and disposable articles, trans-ferring their qualities to an interior
scale. The material and immaterial aspects of PARCEL suggests a light mode
of operation, where the ambience of an environment can be shifted from one
moment to the next. Krets
(www.krets.org)
is an architecture and design research group that focuses on the material
and technological as well as the social and the cultural aspects of
design, pro-duction and performance. The group uses a collaborative
platform to explore the ambi-guities of production and performance where
the nature of design as well as practice itself become reconfigured.
Krets consists of five architects: Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karlsson, Pablo
Miranda, Daniel Norell, Jonas Runberger. |
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