Event-Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick

The Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio in the Hammer Museum was a fascinating find due to its ability to expand on conventional ideas and how it showed the evolution of designs.  The models that were present within the museum varied from resourceful designs that could be used everyday, to inventive models that could re-sculpt the geography of many areas of disinterest in the world. 

            The “Expanding Furniture” item is a basket-like object made from acrylics and is a revolution for what seem to be carrying things and decreasing space when you don’t need to carry as much.  The acrylic parts are joined together in angles that allow the object to retract or expand out to make a bowl shape or an elongated oval shape.  The item is a perfect innovation for carrying because you can adjust the length of the object to hold more or less.  The concept ties into topic of how math and art can design an object because the furniture opens and closes by use of angles and transitions that are mapped out by the mathematics of closing angles and proper angles. 

            The imagination that Thomas Heatherwick has is also shown in his modern designs of what bridges should look like.  The design that I liked the most was the bridge that when it is drawn up actually rolls into itself and creates two opposing circular shapes, and can roll back out.  This intricate design is also a math and art combination because it creates a beautiful kinetic art and also the design of the steel beams must be right to have the bridge fold up perfectly.

            The geographical changing art model that Heatherwick introduces is the park that is in the middle of the desert.  Though it is economically improbable, the green, lush park in the middle of the desert would be a great environment and an art to be seen.  The topic hasn’t really been covered, but the art would lie under a geotech subject due to the nature of the art to change the surroundings and change how people interact with the surroundings.

Works Cited/Links

  "Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio." The Hammer Museum. Web. 14 May 2015.

  Hawthorne, Christopher. "Provocations." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times. Web. 14 May 2015.

  "How Is Marley Park Able to Support All of Its Grass and Trees in This Desert Region?" Marley Park. Web. 14 May 2015.

  "10 Unusual and Creative Bridges." Toxelcom. Web. 14 May 2015.

  "Heatherwick Studio: Rolling Bridge." Rolling Bridge. Web. 14 May 2015.