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Audi & Columbia University | Experiments In Motion
Art Domantay | exhibition installation
Designed by Troy Conrad Therrien and Christopher Barley, the fifty foot floating model of Manhattan was researched with the help of the MTA, the DOT, and the Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE). The suspended aluminum street grid is a 1:1500 scale replica of Manhattan’s road infrastructure while the plexiglass below presents a never before seen view of the architectural volumes of every subway station on the island. Projected onto the floor below is an animated shadow that reveals the flows of motion through the city. Subways, buses, bike lanes, ferries, tunnels and bridges are described as flows of motion which come together to expose the city as a interconnected system for mobility - a city of motion.
In order to install the Experiments In Motion model, the construction team headed by Art Domantay built an elevator rig allowing the model to be worked on at any desired height before it is raised up to its hanging position and the table is removed.
All Otobong Nkanga | Cadence Kara Walker | A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby Taryn Simon | An Occupation of Loss Lawrence Weiner | AT THE SAME MOMENT The Living | Hy-Fi | at MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program & WORKac | Public Farm 1 Pamela Council | A Foundation For Survivors Agnes Denes | Crystal Pyramid Ann Hamilton | Crossings Mike Nelson | A Psychic Vacuum Duke Riley | Fly By Night David Brooks | Rock, Mosquito, Hummingbird Marisa Jahn and Rafi Segal | Hoopcycle ART DOMANTAY | Balsa Wood Airplane: The Land That Time Forgot Audi & Columbia University | Experiments In Motion Audi Urban Future | Project New York MoMA PS1's VW Dome Theater | annual installation Melissa Brown | Buildings Above Clouds, Palisades and Verrazano Casa Paradiso | bahay kubo houses by Art Domantay ART DOMANTAY | original sculptures The littleBits Store | Part shop, part lab The International Center of Photography Reid Farrington & The Metropolitan Museum of Art | The Return Floating Cosmonaut Installation Yayoi Kusama | Whitney Biennial 2004 | Narcissus Garden Paul Ramírez Jonas | Key to the City Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory Casa Paradiso (additional images) | bahay kubo houses by Art Domantay In The Field Crew Album Personal Travels (Restricted) Punchdrunk | Viola's Room (Restricted) Taryn Simon | An Occupation of Loss -
Experiments in Motion Exhibition Explores Urban Mobility (eVolo)
By: Lidija Grozdanic | September - 20 - 2012
Experiments in Motion is a research initiative conducted by the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), in collaboration with Audi of America and LowLine. The aim of the initiative is to explore new forms of urban motion and new spaces for mobility, with special emphasis on New York City.
Students from the program have spent the summer researching all transportation systems in New York City, exposing the potential of underground spaces. Three studios have researched different aspects of movement in contemporary cities: Paradigms in Motion, Design in Motion and Participation in Motion. A fifty foot floating model of Manhattan made from aluminium displays Manhattan’s road infrastructure, while the plexiglass below presents a never before seen view of the architectural volumes of every subway station on the island. A network of subways, tunnels, bike lanes and bridges are presented as flows of movement, revealing a new reality of the city life – it exposes the city as an interconnected system for mobility.
The exhibition marking the end of the first year of Experiments in Motion will feature nine different projects that explore ideas about the future of New York transportation. It will be open to the public at the Essex Street Warehouse in New York City September 15-27.
