INSTALLATIONS
Nails and Nomens
INSTALLATIONS
Nails and Nomens
The furniture grade plywood model is a sculptural/model study executed during a two-part colloquy at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture with Jefferey Kipnis, an American architectural critic, theorist and educator.
The discussions evolved around themes of Urban and Architectonic Space: structured and unstructured spaces.
The seminar was structured in two parts: creation of a sculpture model and a drawing. Final exhibition of Nails and Nomens featured several furniture grade plywood sculptures. The study explored creating an object with space annotations applying only five interventions or space notations in a generic block of furniture grade plywood measuring 10” x 10” x 10”. The block came with predrilled holes to
receive inserted wooden rods to fix the block assembly following individual project perforations. It was decided to initially perform some simple cuts that would reveal different plywood patterns in the block when it was disassembled. For the last cut a decision was made to challenge the block and tool. Using a large conical drill, a precise hole was made through the center piece of the model, leaving only markings on the inside of both end assemblies. The conical void only revealed itself once the block was taken apart. Generating a distinct space, juxtaposing thinner curved ply lines, against wider ply lines, and cut on a soft curved longitudinal angle through the block.
The plywood conical void with a tangent parallelogram cut was used as the poster image, featured above, for the display of Nails and Nomens exhibited at the Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen.
Exhibition: Nails and Nomens, Danish Architecture Center (DAC)
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Design & Fabrication: Eva Christine Jensen, Birgitte De Neergaard & Marietta
Field of Study: Architecture seminar w/ Jefferey Kipnis, American architecture critic & theorist
Photography: Eva Christine Jensen
Exhibition: Nails and Nomens, Danish Architecture Center (DAC)
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Design & Fabrication: Eva Christine Jensen, Birgitte De Neergaard & Marietta
Field of Study: Architecture seminar w/ Jefferey Kipnis, American architecture critic & theorist
Photography: Eva Christine Jensen
Furniture grade plywood model with top piece removed revealing a conical void
Disassembled plywood model in three pieces held together with two wooden rods.
Side view of plywood model
Side view “over X” of plywood model