GEOMETRY OF LIGHT The Architecture of ARKAN ZEYTINOGLU
Dwelling for the Light Dwelling for the light going invisible filling up the space where it stays restless disappearing in my mind not looking but seeing when I close my eyes and just listen to the colors till it gets so dark being mean
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CONDENSED CITY I Studies on the Typology of the City, Vienna, Austria 1992
The Void “Condensed City” analyzes Vienna’s structure of concentric rings in six steps: inner city/Ringstraße (ring-road)/inner urban districts/Gürtel (outer ring-road)/outer urban districts/suburbs (as far as the Vienna Woods). The development, density, traffic routes and empty spaces of the individual parts are reconstructed and interpreted in a metaphoric plan. The studies on topological densification and void are themselves condensed in a “building.” “Condensed City” compresses “the city” in one of its in-between spaces.
left page The Void, 1992 pencil on sketching paper, 60 x 41.5 cm right page Ring of Vienna, 1992 pencil on sketching paper, 65 x 41.5 cm
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The cross-section of Vienna from the core to the fringe is programmatically compressed into the emptiness to the Ring.
right page Chronology of the Forms, 1992 pencil on sketching paper, 110 x 90 cm left page, above Section - Floor Plan, 1992 pencil on sketching paper, 110 x 50 cm left page, below Floor Plan-Section-Elevation-The Grid, 1992 pencil on sketching paper, 110 x 70 cm
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THE AUSTRIAN PAVILION AT THE EXPO 2010 I Shanghai, China 2008 – 2010 with SPAN Architecture & Design
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Bent Geometry Music and architecture have long been engaged in a stimulating relationship with each other. For the Austrian Pavilion in Shanghai the “sound” was the driving force that reflects the harmonious continuity of music in the form of the architectural volume. The basic conflict of the weightiness and rigidity of architecture seems to be dispelled – outside and inside flow together and the seamless transitions between the individual sequences of space allow a flow of movement to develop that leads the visitor from the entrance area through the exhibition site to the exit. The resonance room forms the centre of the pavilion, in which Austria’s musical legacy from classical to the present day is presented by means of audiovisual stimulation. The complex curved surfaces could be precisely calculated and produced only by means of topology, a branch of mathematics. Spatial vaulting as rhythmical movement within a body of sound.
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ROOFTOP MH1 I Vienna, Austria 2004 – 2008