*바람길을 봅니다 [ Charles Sowers ] Windswept

바람길을 봅니다.

외벽에 설치된 수백여개의 회전날개는 바람과 외벽의 상호관계에 따라

바람이 흘러가는 흐름을 마치 물속의 물고기들의 다이나믹한 움직임처럼

보여줍니다. 612개의 알루미늄 풍향계는 독립적인 회전축을 갖고

바람의 움직임을 적나라하게 표현합니다.

무동력, 별도의 에너지를 사용하지 않고 디자인의 형태를 변화 시키는 방법은

단순히 독특한 입면 디자인을 위함이 아닌 외부환경과 건축이 조화와 관계성을 읽는

일련의 작업을 보여주는데 의미가 있습니다.

reviewed by SJ

Hundreds of spinning blades reveal the invisible patterns of the wind in American artist Charles Sowers’ kinetic installation on the facade of the Randall Museum in San Francisco.

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Artist: Charles Sowers Studios, LLC
Project: Windswept
Location: Randal Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA
Size: 35’ length / 20’ height
Client: San Francisco Arts Commission/Randall Museum
Contractor: Rocket Science
Engineer: Hom-Pisano Engineers
Project Completion: 11/19/2010

The installation, titled Windswept, consists of 612 rotating aluminium weather vanes mounted on an outside wall.

As gusts of wind hit the wall, the aluminium blades spin not as one but independently, indicating the localised flow of the wind and the way it interacts with the building.

“Our ordinary experience of wind is as a solitary sample point of a very large invisible phenomenon,” said Sowers. “Windswept is a kind of large sensor array that samples the wind at its point of interaction with the Randall Museum building and reveals the complexity and structure of that interaction.”

“I’m generally interested in creating instrumentation that allows us insight into normally invisible or unnoticed phenomena,” he added.

from  dezeen