100401_TVMNY @ CHICAGO | Extension Gallery

March 31, 2010 at 1:22 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

CHICAGO | Extension Gallery | Opening Thursday 1st April
THEVERYMANY will present a new prototypic structure…
(FM lecture @ 6pm)

Design: THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes
Research team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Brandon kruysman, John Proto
Production team: Mathew Staudt, Brandon kruysman, John Proto + many…
Assembly team: Marc Fornes, Mathew Staudt, Brandon kruysman, John Proto + many…

EXTENSION GALLERY
625 N. Kingsbury Street
Chicago, Illinois 60654
http://www.extensiongallery.us

(invitation: Paula Palombo)

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100325_TVMNY @ PARIS | Synesthesie Galerie

March 24, 2010 at 12:03 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

PARIS | Galerie Synesthesie | Opening Thursday 25th March
THEVERYMANY will present a new prototypic structure…

Design: THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes
Design team: Marc Fornes, Mathew Staudt
Assembly team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Veronica Emig + many…
Fab: Jared Laucks

SYNESTHESIE
15 rue Denfert Rochereau
93200 SAINT DENIS
www.synesthesie.com

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090907_TVMNY @LYON(FR) | Galerie Roger Tator (3)

December 9, 2009 at 10:54 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

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LYON (FRANCE)| nEdg| Galerie Roger Tator | 090907
THEVERYMANY (Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks)
(invited as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
14 September – 27 November (extended…)

“n|Edg” as the sum of its parts:
2 compound surfaces
2796 individual surfaces (from 3 to n edges)
5375 holes

“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.

top surface reconstruction

bottom surface reconstruction

pattern extract

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090907_TVMNY @LYON(FR) | Galerie Roger Tator (2)(Assembly)

November 10, 2009 at 1:15 am · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

LYON (FRANCE) | nEdg | Galerie Roger Tator | 090907
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks
(invited as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
14 September – 27 November

Few night shots…
(timing: end of assembly – before final surface twicks)

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MORE TO COME…

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090907_TVMNY @LYON(FR) | Galerie Roger Tator (1)(Assembly)

November 3, 2009 at 5:20 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

LYON (France) | nEdg | Galerie Roger Tator 090907
(invited as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
14 September – 13 November

While waiting for a screws delivery for a new installation (due to open tomorrow!) I have finally few minutes to start posting images from that one…

4 suitaces (flying from New York to Lyon)
81.6kg (max weight allowed for two people + tolerances)
38.274 m2
0.025” thick Golden Anodized Aluminum
22 sheets 4’*8’
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

Assembling…
10 days installation
10 people

HISTOIRE A SUIVRE…

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091104_TVMNY @NYC | Material Connexion

October 17, 2009 at 11:20 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

THEVERYMANY @ BITS’N PIECES | Material Connexion | New York
Opening November 4th 2009
Invitation: Dries Verbruggen with Alissia Melka-Teichroew & Jan Habraken
Material Connexion

Once more many parts…

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091001_TVMNY @LYON | Galerie Roger Tator (proposal)(2)

October 2, 2009 at 5:45 am · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

LYON (France) | n|Edg | Galerie Roger Tator 091409
(invited as part of the “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)

Few more images sent as part of an early proposal:
OPT01 | “Up Down” | inverted terrain

OPT02 | “Ground up” | inflated morphology

Early tests of “surface reconstruction”:

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090925_TVMNY @LYON | Galerie Roger Tator (proposal)

September 24, 2009 at 3:03 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

LYON (France) | n|Edg | Galerie Roger Tator 091409
(invited as part of the “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)

Despite the installation has already open – I am somehow forced to respect the linear story telling of the blog format – so here are the very first images sent as proposal to the Galerie Roger Tator…

Here the focus of the research was to investigate the tessellation of a double curve surface beyond triangle and arrays of quad – is it possible to generate parts going from three sides to n number of sides?

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090906_TVMNY @NYC | Elga Wimmer Gallery (3)

September 22, 2009 at 8:00 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

NEW YORK | MODOID | Elga Wimmer Gallery

by THEVERYMANY
Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt,
Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto,…

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While on its way…

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What that one is finally about…

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090906_TVMNY @NYC | Elga Wimmer Gallery (2)

September 11, 2009 at 6:47 am · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

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NEW YORK | MODOID | Elga Wimmer Gallery

(pictures while assembling)

by THEVERYMANY
Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt,
Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto,…

MODOID is part “OVERLAP”
“Extending beyond edges and boundaries in art & architecture”
August 27 – September 19, 2009 (Tuesday – Saturday noon-6:00pm)

Curated and produced by Kelsey Harrington & Christine Yogiaman

http://www.theoverlap.info

Elga Wimmer Gallery
526 West 26th St, # 310 NY NY 10001
t. 212 206 0006 c.401 316 4303

MORE TO COME…

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090906_TVMNY @LYON | Galerie Roger Tator

September 6, 2009 at 7:54 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

n|Edg | Gallery Roger Tator | Lyon (France) | September 2009
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
Opening: Monday, September 14th

IMAGES TO COME AFTER OPENING…

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090906_TVMNY @NYC | Elga Wimmer Gallery (1)

September 6, 2009 at 6:33 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

NEW YORK | OVERLAP | Elga Wimmer Gallery
August 27 – September 19, 2009 (Tuesday – Saturday noon-6:00pm)
Reception: Wednesday September 9th 6:00-9:00pm

THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto

THEVERYMANY has been invited by Kelsey Harrington & Christine Yogiaman to produced not so much a piece/installation than encourage to try/test/experiment… the focus this time was not so much on a procedural level neither on a geometrical level – but rather on testing a material technique…

As pretentious as it can sound – research even in design is “somehow” like solving the Cancer – one has to focus on tiny steps – though still keeping in mind the larger picture…

MODOID – is one of those tiny steps – though still within THEVERYMANY usual agenda of procedural, large scale, short timing and low budget experimental framework…
the first of new series – so operative failures to be expected…
though come and see…

IMAGES TO COME AFTER RECEPTION…

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090820_TVMNY @CHILE | ALOBLUMS (2)

September 2, 2009 at 8:14 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

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ALOBLUMS Valparaiso (Chile) August 2009
THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
+ collective BANGS & many students from the workshop…

marc fornes installation. from ameliechucky on Vimeo.

Many thanks to Pablo C. Herrera for the video…

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090820_TVMNY @CHILE | ALOBLUMS

August 20, 2009 at 1:46 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

ALOBLUMS | Valparaiso (Chile) | August 2009

Design: THEVERYMANY
Design Team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
Assembly team: collective BANGS and many students from the workshop…

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ALOBLUMS SUM OF ITS PARTS:
sphereoid – 2m (6′) approx. diameter…
70 modules (4 types)…
12 sheets of golden anodized aluminum…
cnc cut in Philadeplhia (Continental Signs)…
3700 rivets…
all packed with me on the plane as 2 check in bags (40 and 35 pounds)…

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MORE TO COME SOON……

Many thanks to the collective BANGS for the invitation – especially Marcela Godoy for making that workshop happen…

Students:
Eduardo Hirose, Daniel Concha, Diego Moreno, Juan Pablo Klempau, Felipe Valdebenito, Pablo Banda, Francisco Quitral, Hermann Zbindenn, José Luis Guzmán, Victor Bunster M., Drago Vodanovic, Claudio Troncoso, Tomas Jacobsen, Miguel Aravena, Pablo Silva
Francisco Calvo, Camila Rock De Luigi, Francisco Lara, Oscar Terrazas , Gabriel Santander, Oscar Ignacio Contreras, Hernán Castro, Natalija Boljsakov, Brian Miller, Manuel Díaz, Rodrigo Ramírez, Gonzalo Andrade, Andre Geoffroy, Matias Carrera…

BANGS:
Pablo Barría, Begoña Arellano, Claudio Astudillo, José Narea,, Marcela Godoy, Linda Schilling

Extras:
Pablo C. Herrera, Tristan Al Haddad…

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090804_TVMNY @NYC | BRIDGE GALLERY (re)configured

August 4, 2009 at 2:56 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

NEW YORK | Bridge Gallery | Echinoids (re)configured

How many people do actualy believe in “failures“?

I do! – while giving talks/lectures I am often arguying about it – “operative failures” – in philosophy, empiricism is a theory of knowledge which asserts that knowledge arises from experience – one of many ways to gain experience is through test and trials – and within the recent jump in scale of the digital craft and the “Do it yourself” paradigm – experience requires failures…

Experiencing failure within prototypes – yes! – and despite often being displayed within art gallery THEVERYMANY’s “constructs” are partly installation partly prototypes – though not so much prototypes to see if the systems is actually going to fail? – but rather when? – can failures be expected? – even better anticipated up to embodied within the geometrical system tested potential response?

“the lion sat” – a localized part of Echinoids v1.0 slowly saddled – it didn’t break but suffered from “fatigue” – unexpected failure? – blind future? – I would argue for curated ones…

Temporary installation are related to time – but also budget – aggregate systems and their inherent qualities are highly depending on numbers – unfortunately numbers are often the exact opposit vector to time/budget – then if no budget the system requires carefull compositionnal search methods to maintain a scale large enough to be experienced by its viewer as architectural artefact – homogeneity could be one way to go – unfortunately spreading the elements all accross the construct while maintaining structural integrity often requires down sizing…

“until where can one go too far?”

Echinoids system is based on “calculated risk“ – calculated risk is different from denying risk or maximising efforts to avoid falires – here the aggregate is designed through variation of desnties – balancing strengh and weakness – fully closed macro-systems as stable larger parts and low density members at transitional areas – a curated aggregate system allowing within its own geometric nature possible partial re-configuration – “explosion” as safe away exit strategy – allowing second lifes for a piece: from construct to environment…

That (re)configuration is only the first one possible – and therefore to be followed along the summer for eventual other ones…

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090717_TVMNY @NYC | BRIDGE GALLERY (2)

July 18, 2009 at 3:51 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

Echinoids | THEVERYMANY | Bridge Gallery | 2009 | nyc

“-oid” is derived from the Latin suffix -oides taken from Greek and meaning “having the likeness of”. Thus it is a suffix much used in the sciences and mathematics to indicate a “similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else”.
Thus Rhomboid means “like a rhombus”. Because -oid denotes similarity, not necessarily exact, but can also denote exactness, in chemistry the suffix refers to a very large class of related compounds, natural and/or synthetic. Examples include steroid (of which sterols are just one smaller group) and alkaloid. (ie wikipedia)

From many parts…
Long. 13.5ft – Larg. 5ft – Height 7.5ft
530 modules
25 Sheets (4*8″) Walnut veneer (800 Sft) + olive oil
1600 of Elastic bras straps (Brown, Black, Navy Blue)
4500 screws

To logistic of parts…
Lacing time: 1/2h/module – 40 modules/day!

“RUSTIC COMPUTATION”…

THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes with Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt

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090706_TVMNY @NYC | BRIDGE GALLERY

July 6, 2009 at 4:23 pm · Filed under Construct(s), MarcFornes, THEVERYMANY and tagged: architecture, computation, digital fabrication, installation, Marc Fornes, prototype, prototypic structure, THEVERYMANY

Once more many parts…

THEVERYMANY @ BRIDGE GALLERY (NYC)
98 Ochard Street New York NY 10002
Opening: Thursday July 9th
(as part of the collective show “Wild child” curated by Peter Macapia)

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It is all about “rustic computation“…

Full credits shared with the MANY who made this installation possible…
Also many thanks to PRATT INSTITUTE and our friends at ANYLINE NYC for the laser cutting…

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