Seven students from the Welsh School of Architect, Cardiff University, set out to discover, understand and create a piece of Ephemeral Architecture.
The concept was to model a snapshot of something that is ever fluctuating and changing. We decided to digitally model our given site of several ex-office spaces within one of Cardiff's Victorian Arcades. Within our digital model we calculated Day-Lighting Levels and also virtually recreated a sound-wave travelling through the rooms.
Then considering the meandering paths of circulation through the rooms we combined the data to produce a flowing, organic form within the computer. We then attempted to construct this form, but remained with the initial concept of a piece of Ephemeral Architecture by making the structure completely removable - producing concrete nomadic anchors and steel hooks to connect to the existing building fabric temporarily. The idea being that when the installation is complete it would leave no trace.
The form was built over two and a half days using purely industrial clear tape and industrial packing wrap. This choice of materials was to create a translucent shape that would still allow a hint of the original walls and ceiling behind, giving a sense of being frozen in a moment.
The exhibition itself included a film that was projected onto the tensile packing wrap in the final space with sounds gathered from the Victorian Arcade below that decay in quality along the journey of the sound-wave.
Students: Mark Ratke, Alex Antoniou, Poh Teck Kang, Alex Brooks, Edward Dyhouse, Ben Hansen, Tom Draper
Tutor: Wassim Jabbi
Software: Autodesk Ecotect, 3D Studio Max, Google Sketchup, Sony Vegas, Quicktime
Video Music: Ulrich Schnauss and Boards of Canada
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