"Movement Culture" by ESKYIU

Expanding the definition of architectural work, a husband-and-wife team engages the public in projects ranging from installations to events. Movement and dynamism, lightness and sensuality was the elements that inspired ESKYIU to elaborate this small installation for Ido Portal that was used as backdrop of a spectacle of acrobatics, movements of human body and martial arts.

The study of architecture ESKYIU was the manager of designing this small installation of sensual curves that received installations for Ido Portal. Using digital tools, elaborated with fabric and rings steels, later it was sewed manually with a lot of skill.

Description of the project by ESKYIU

ESKYIU was commissioned to create, design and fabricate a stage set and installation back drop for Ido Portal located in the Shaw Studios, Hong Kong. With ESKYIU’s ongoing fascination with surface, boundaries, geometries and movement in three dimensional spaces, this project culminated in the design of a spatial construct that defies the boundaries of fabrication and creative execution. The installation design structure responds to the inspired movement of Ido’s art, trajectories of his body movement and plays with the complexities and lightness of his “Movement Culture”. Ido’s work combines philosophy, nutrition, use of nature and a combination of acrobatics, floreio (sub-art of Capoeira) and mixed martial arts and body movement. We created a design to fulfill the design brief by the client to achieve a “futuristic, modern, pure, minimal and serene space”.

The final installation is a fluid structure made of fabric and steel rings. The 12 metres wide installation could be lowered and transformed to give subtle affects of change; yet at its fullest – taut extreme and perfected form, it challenged the perception of space, scale and depth. The installation stage set process utilized digital tools to create the geometry for a smooth surface, whilst using precise hand sewn fabric to seam the joints between fabric pieces. The installation achieves a lightweight dynamic and with the transforming illumination, the installation supports multiple views for the framing of the film documentation and photo shoot through a singular pavilion design.

Text.- ESKYIU

CREDITS. TECHNICAL SHEET.-

Lead Designers.- Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu.
Project Team.- Maggie Hua and Pang Lai Ming.
Installation Size.- 12 metre diameter. 5 metre height. 150 sqm area film studio.
Date.- 2012-2013.
Location.- Shaw Studios, Hong Kong.

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Eric Schuldenfrei + Marisa You ESKYIU

ESKYIU es un estudio multidisciplinar que explora como la arquitectura interseca con paisajes culturales transformables, medios de comunicación, productos, impresión, sistemas de fabricación experimentales, instrumentos educativos y sostenibilidad social. Fundado en Nueva York por Eric Schuldenfrei y Marisa Yiu en 2005, establecieron la oficina del estudio en Hong Kong, 2007. Su práctica arquitectónica funciona en un entorno abierto y colaborativo, en varias escalas (desde objetos-productos a proyectos de escala urbana) trabajando estrechamente con varias disciplinas en una manera rigurosa y sensible.

Les concedieron el prestigioso ‘Architectural League Prize’, Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, Design for Asia Award, Perspective’s ‘40 under 40’; organizaron 2009 HK & SZ Bi-City Biennale; expuesto tan extensamente como la Venecia Biennale; exposiciones orales internacionales tales como la Harvard’s AsiaGSD conference, TEDx, V&A museum, the Asia Society to Universities por todo el mundo desde Nanjing hasta Finlandia y Cambridge. Recientemente publicaron INSTANT CULTURE: Architecture and Urbanism as a Collective Process.

Eric Schuldenfrei. Schuldenfrei fué Bachelor de Arquitectura en Cornell University y Master of Philosophy por la University of Cambridge, y completó su PhD de Cambridge en ‘Architecture and the Moving Image’. Miembro fundador de ESKYIU. Asociado a la American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Marisa You. You fué Bachelor de Architecture en Columbia College, Columbia University. Master de Architecture en Princeton University. Miembro fundador de ESKYIU. Miembro del American Institute of Architects (AIA), y miembro asociado de The Hong Kong Institute of Architects.

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