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2007 _ re- Designing the Guggenheim - Island6 Arts Center, Shanghai China by Allard van Hoorn, Stefano Tedesco, Yan Mengfei and Qi Shaoli
A drawing of a building translated into a dance, then into a picture, subsequently into a musical composition which is turned back into architectural models once again. This project is a study of transformation and the relationship between the state of the static and the dynamic.
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This project researches the effects of a transformation process. The object, in this case the physical Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is transformed from sketch into a building, a dance, a drawing, music and then back into a building. This re-designing sequence is aimed at studying the result of re-thinking the metaphysical appearance of an object.
The project takes the initial sketch of the Guggenheim building as a point of departure. This sketch was made by Frank Gehry when he was commissioned the project. The drawing was then memorized by Allard van Hoorn who danced in the dark using a torch to re-draw the original sketch. The building is now re-created into movement, into a dance.
The light-drawing was subsequently sent from Shanghai to London where sound artist Stefano Tedesco composed three individual sound pieces based on the drawing.
The sound pieces where sent on to Shanghai as input for Qi Shaoli and Yan Mengfei, architects of the Tonji University in Shanghai, to create architectural models based on this newly created music. They did not know the original input was the Guggenheim building in Bilbao so they had only the music as inspiration. With this last step we translate the processed material back into a (scale model for a) physical building.
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