- JEFFREY LANDMAN DESIGNS - OBJECT - ROOM - BUILDING - TEXT -
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THE KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE
Type:
Artist Collaboration
Role:
Design, Fabrication
With:
Christine Davis
Date:
2016
The Canadian artist Christine Davis asked me to design a structure to house The Knowledge of Life: Recto. The work is a series of 72 collaged tablets. The collages are a disruptive alteration of Oliver Byrne’s famous 1847 edition of Euclid’s Geometries.
In response to the work, I designed a folding screen that subverts traditional rail and stile joinery. The collages are mounted to tablets that become the opposite of traditional floating panel in a door or window assembly.
A simple passive hinge allows complex folded relationships between the various frames. The hinge nonetheless required some very challengfing joinery.
The complete structure has 48 subframes housed in 24 outer frames, forming a recombinant, transformative architecture object.
01. installation view
02. installation view
03. installation view
04. prototype
05. prototype detail
06. prototype detail
07. prototype arrangement
08. prototype detail
09. prototype arrangement
10. prototype detail
11. hinge study
11. hinge study
01. conceptual plan
02. concept sketch 03. concept sketch
04. elevation and plan
05. hinge detail
06. knolled parts
07. perspective sketch
Ø.06
THE KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE
Type:
Artist Collaboration
Role:
Design, Fabrication
With:
Christine Davis
Date:
2016
The Canadian artist Christine Davis asked me to design a structure to house The Knowledge of Life: Recto. The work is a series of 72 collaged tablets. The collages are a disruptive alteration of Oliver Byrne’s famous 1847 edition of Euclid’s Geometries.
In response to the work, I designed a folding screen that subverts traditional rail and stile joinery. The collages are mounted to tablets that become the opposite of traditional floating panel in a door or window assembly.
A simple passive hinge allows complex folded relationships between the various frames. The hinge nonetheless required some very challengfing joinery.
The complete structure has 48 subframes housed in 24 outer frames, forming a recombinant, transformative architecture object.
01. installation view
02. installation view
03. installation view
02. installation view
03. installation view
04. prototype
05. prototype detail
06. prototype detail
06. prototype detail
07. prototype arrangement
08. prototype detail
09. prototype arrangement
10. prototype detail
11. hinge study
08. prototype detail
09. prototype arrangement
10. prototype detail
11. hinge study
01. conceptual plan
02. concept sketch 03. concept sketch
04. elevation and plan
05. hinge detail
06. knolled parts
07. perspective sketch