«Motion Matters», exhibición de UNStudio en Aedes Gallery, Berlin

Movimiento
Los efectos, la luz, el color y el material se ponen a prueba para la percepción del espectador en una instalación espacial de perspectivas cambiantes. Dentro de una trayectoria por espacios de transición, ilusiones ópticas y trompe l’oeil, los efectos son llevados a estructuras contemporáneas, generando una experiencia que vincula la idea con lo relacional. Las numerosas interacciones posibles entre la construcción, el programa y el usuario involucran al público en un enfrentamiento dinámico y desafiante, un elemento clave en el diseño de UNStudio. La exposición en sí no es meramente un escaparate, ni un objeto para observar pasivamente, sino que interactúa con el visitante y al mismo tiempo exige una participación activa con el fin de crear una experiencia espacial dinámica.

Cuestiones
En una escala casi 1:1 el visitante puede, por así decirlo, ‘entrar’ en los proyectos expuestos: Burnham Pavilion (Millennium Park, Chicago, USA), Centre for Virtual Engineering – ZVE (Fraunhofer Institute, Stuttgart, Germany), Theatre Agora (Lelystad, Netherlands), Galleria Centercity (Cheonan, Korea), el Arnhem Central – Platform Roofs (Arnhem, Netherlands), MUMUTH Music Theatre (Graz, Austria), Holiday Home (ICA, Philadelphia, USA), Education Executive Agency & Tax Offices (Groningen, Netherlands), Haus am Weinberg (Stuttgart, Germany), Mercedes-Benz Museum (Stuttgart, Germany).

Conocimiento base
Además de estos proyectos clave, una vista más detallada a través de cinco ejes temáticos une los proyectos en su conjunto a lo largo de una cinta tridimensional que serpentea a través del espacio de la exposición. Estos temas se componen de numerosas pequeñas imágenes que ofrecen una lectura de las diversas relaciones entre los proyectos expuestos dentro del contexto más amplio de los procesos de inspiración, del debate y la realización y dan una idea sobre la naturaleza de la práctica de UNStudio.

Ben van Berkel dice: «Cuando hablamos de «movimiento» dentro de la arquitectura no sólo nos referimos a los edificios y a sus efectos potenciales, sino también a los cambios o giros en la práctica de la profesión; hablamos de las fuerzas móviles que generan cambios y dónde el futuro de la arquitectura puede mentir. Por lo tanto, ‘Motion’ también encierra el pasado, el presente y el posible futuro de la profesión».

Original Text in English

For many years UNStudio has been investigating the potential of the temporary installation as an experimental testing ground for manifold architectural concerns and it is these investigations that form the basis of the exhibition ‘Motion Matters’. The exhibition presents ten of UNStudio’s milestone projects, in addition to conveying their perspective on 25 years of architectural production, their current approach to architectural practice and the wider discourse that determines design challenges today.

Motion
The effects of situation, light, color, and material on viewer perception are tested in a spatial installation of shifting perspectives. Within a trajectory of transitional spaces, optical illusions and trompe l’oeil effects are brought to contemporary structures, generating an experience that negotiates the ideal and the relational. The many interactions possible between building, programme and user which can engage the public in a dynamic and challenging confrontation is a key element in UNStudio’s designs. The exhibit itself is not merely a showcase, nor an object to passively observe, but instead interacts with the visitor whilst simultaneously demanding active participation in order to create a spatial and dynamic experience.

Matters 
At an almost 1:1 scale the visitor can, as it were, step into the projects on display: these include the Burnham Pavilion (Millennium Park, Chicago, USA), the Centre for Virtual Engineering – ZVE (Fraunhofer Institute, Stuttgart, Germany), the Theatre Agora (Lelystad, Netherlands), the Galleria Centercity (Cheonan, Korea), the Arnhem Central – Platform Roofs (Arnhem, Netherlands), the MUMUTH Music Theatre (Graz, Austria), the Holiday Home (ICA, Philadelphia, USA), the Education Executive Agency & Tax Offices (Groningen, Netherlands), the Haus am Weinberg (Stuttgart, Germany), and the Mercedes-Benz Museum (Stuttgart, Germany).

Knowledge Based
In addition to the primary focus on these key projects, a more detailed view is generated by means of five thematic threads which bind the projects together along a three-dimensional ribbon which meanders through the exhibition space. These threads consist of numerous small images which afford the reading of the various relationships between the exhibited projects within a larger context of inspiration, debate and realisation processes and provide insight into the knowledge driven nature of UNStudio’s practice.

Ben van Berkel: “When we talk of ‘motion’ within architecture we not only refer to buildings and their potential effects, but also to shifts, or twists in the whole, integrated practice of the profession; we talk of the mobile forces which engender change and where the future of architecture may lie. ‘Motion’ therefore also encapsulates the past, the present and the possible future of the profession.”