Bath Mythenquai

02.01.2011

Musically Informed Structure for a Bath Mythenquai on Lake Zurich

This proposal for a competition regarding a new building for the well known Bath Mythenqui on Lake Zurich was developed in collaboration with Architect Roland Rossmair.

Jan was invited to inform the roof and wall structures with music. Below a more in depth description.

Architect and artist decided to incorporate art into the building instaed of a freestanding and separate artwork.

The Architectural Design gets informed by music in the sense of defining the repetetive elements of the structure with musical rythms and melodies using a specially developed strategy.

This is achieved by the translation of a particular piece of music into the sequence, position and size of roof and wall elements. Thus every note of the musical piece relates directly to a particular element und its proporties. For example a wooden beam receives its dimension and position within the roofs grid by pitch and velocity of a note / sound.

Thereby the builing incorporates the aura of musical melody and rythmdespite its high degree of repetitive elements and transforms music through its play with light and shadow.
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Unesco, Bahrain

09.12.2010

Musically informed Facade, Unesco Building, Bahrain

In collaboration with AGID Architects, Bahrain.

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Intervention

On the occasion of the conversion of the building for the new Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage we have been invited as artists to contribute to the project by executing Architect D. Kobel. The entrance situation being planned forms a new volume structure consisting of a number of similar, vertically aligned concrete bars within the existing building.

The proposed concept envisions to transform a local traditional type of music into the proportion and sequence of spaces in between these repetitive facade elements. In the following we describe our work in progress and provide background information relevant to our intervention.

 

 

Daylight Simulation Sept 15:00

Heritage

In the history of Bahrain before 1932 more than 90 percent of the population were fishermen, pearl divers, or people having a profession connected with the sea, we wished to work with a rhythmic structure of an original and characteristic musical genre ralated to that culture of
Bahrain, the so called Fidjeri.

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The reference of the Fidjeri is a traditional hand down from father to son, centred on the narration of the historical origins of the Fidjeri.

Concept

In the history of Bahrain before 1932 more than 90 percent of the population were fishermen, pearl divers, or people having a profession connected with the sea, we wished to work with a rhythmic structure of an original and characteristic musical genre ralated to that culture of
Bahrain, the so called Fidjeri.

The reference of the Fidjeri is a traditional hand down from father to son, centred on the narration of the historical origins of the Fidjeri.

SOM Facade

06.11.2010

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(www.whist.ch)

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Concept for a Sculpture transforming the USA National Hymn into an publicly accessible Vertical Park in Southern Manhattan, New York City.

On the One

12.12.2008

Execution of a Nutwood Wall informed by 3 Pieces of Music, 26 m x 3.5 m x 0.05,

Bar Restauraunt Forum, Zurich, 2004
In collaboration with WHIST Architects. (www.whist.ch)

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