STRATA

Site-specific Parametric Sculpture

Authors

  • Daniel Palacios Jiménez Independent Artist (Málaga) Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Umatica.2019.v1i2.7742

Keywords:

sculpture, perception, data visualization, environment, architecture, Berrocal, site-specific

Abstract

Site-specific sculpture project based on climatic data captured in the environment of specific buildings. The sculptures offer an alternative vision of such spaces, investigating the unique qualities of each one and the relationships that it establishes with its surroundings, as well as the subjectivity of our perception of it.

Created by the accumulation of hundreds of pieces whose forms are based on the architecture of the building itself and basic aspects of our perception of the urban environment (such as light and ambient temperature at different points of the building), each piece is a data visualization graphic on itself.

Stacked, the sculpture becomes a timeline (sunrise at the base of the sculpture and dusk at the upper end), while the shape changes of its perimeter correspond to the data variations collected by the logging devices (distributed around the perimeter of the building for a short period of time).

Malleable and without fixed form, you can twist the sculptures and alter the resulting shape, however each of its layers will still correspond to a precise and analytical view of the situation in the perimeter of the building at the given moment that it represents. Compared to the detailed study of the information that forms them, the accumulation of all its layers creates an interpretation of the data beyond the data visualization; it creates a subjective volume with which we can interact, a unique and malleable experience, as it is our perception of such space.

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Author Biography

Daniel Palacios Jiménez, Independent Artist (Málaga)

Artist

Published

2019-12-29

How to Cite

Palacios Jiménez, D. (2019). STRATA: Site-specific Parametric Sculpture. UMÁTICA. Journal on Image Creation and Analysis, 1(2), 77–129. https://doi.org/10.24310/Umatica.2019.v1i2.7742