The digitally generated information was exported into assembly sheets—essentially a map of where and how to place each tube. The piece was installed in January as part of Thessaloniki’s Platforma 1 temporary exhibition, organized by ArqLab and Art|House gallery.
Infrared, a group of researchers and fabricators located in Thessaloniki, Greece, has created Madren 5340. A piece of duality, this work investigates the theme of private space and its varying degrees through the use of hundreds of individually placed paper tubes. The surface was generated algorithmically using a bedroom as a base situation, regulating light and visibility into space. Different sine waves were interpolated between to create a double-curved wall which is self-supporting from the ground. The designers describe as,
In effect, each paper-tube is becoming something between a voxel and a pixel: it is positioned in space trying to represent a thin volume that reads as a surface—the properties of the volex—while at the same time displays a certain intensity of light—the properties of the pixel. The aggregation of the tubes is approximating the curvature of the initial surface.
Courtesy of Infrared