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0029 Telematische Landschaft ×

The project is a proposal for the exhibition booth of the German technology enterprise Bosch at the Expo 2000 in Hanover. It was designed as a growing, walk-in organism made of fractal geometries, which provide a maximized surface for virtually infinite displays and projections. It depicts a networked world in which spaces are continuously changed by the movement and perception of the users. Telematische Landschaft was the outcome of a long examination of domotics, the home automation of interlinked devices, that Bosch was researching and developing at the time. The project incorporated spatial mathematical models such as the Menger sponge, an object from fractal geometry, that is further perforated with each iteration step. While its surface is growing, the volume is simultaneously approaching zero. The Menger sponge as a theoretical model can be applied one-to-one to the idea of architecture as a communicative surface, while the volume itself becomes almost meaningless. Read more

The project was followed by a free, interdisciplinary research project on the telematic landscape initiated by the architects of b&k+, the designers of Casino Container, and the artists of Global Human AG. A publication with a first collection of writings and images on the telematic landscape (0042.1 in vitro landscape. grundlagen zur architekturgenetik 1) appeared in the context of the exhibition 0042 in vitro landscape by b&k+ in the Architecture Gallery at Weissenhof in Stuttgart in September 1999. Read less

Category
Project
Place
Hanover
Year
1998
Client
Bosch GmbH
Venue
Expo 2000
Collaboration
b&k+ Arno Brandlhuber & Bernd Kniess + Casino Container, Rudi Frings, Global Human AG, Meyer Voggenreiter
Team
Sven Bäucker, Markus Emde, Josef Ewert, Sebastian Hauser, Gregor Kreusch, Jörg Lammers, Veith Landwehr, Jörg Leeser, Björn Martenson, Christiane Schmidt, Suitbert Schmidt, Uli Wallner; Werner Sobek (structural engineer)

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