http://www.sotamaa.net Sotamaa Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:42 +0000 http://www.sotamaa.net en http://www.sotamaa.net/Vaahtoranta http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/Vaahtoranta Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:42 +0000 Sotamaa 390212 Vaahtoranta is a schematic design by Kivi Sotamaa for the urban shoreline of Hernesaari peninsula in Helsinki in 2007. Renderings by Zebracolor <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390212/Vaahtoranta-ZZ-06.jpg" width="670" height="268" width_o="1500" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390212/Vaahtoranta-ZZ-06_o.jpg" data-mid="1724564" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390212/Vaahtoranta-ZZ-01.jpg" width="670" height="268" width_o="1500" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390212/Vaahtoranta-ZZ-01_o.jpg" data-mid="1724461" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390212/Vaahtoranta-ZZ-03.jpg" width="670" height="268" width_o="1500" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390212/Vaahtoranta-ZZ-03_o.jpg" data-mid="1724464" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390212/Vaahtoranta-ZZ-04.jpg" width="670" height="268" width_o="1500" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390212/Vaahtoranta-ZZ-04_o.jpg" data-mid="1724465" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.sotamaa.net/Surfscape http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/Surfscape Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:28 +0000 Sotamaa 390193 Surfscape is a roughy 2m x 1m sculpture by Kivi Sotamaa & Markus Holmsten designed for Young Forum Finland Exhibition in 1997. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390193/surfscape.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="719" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390193/surfscape_o.jpg" data-mid="1724291" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.sotamaa.net/Mantaray http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/Mantaray Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:27 +0000 Sotamaa 381072 Mantaray is a series of ceramic dishes designed by Tuuli Sotamaa in collaboration with Kivi Sotamaa. The portable trays are thin surfaces that fit over the contours of an arm. The table top dishes vary in proportion, are thick and have two distinct surfaces: the top one organises the distribution of the food and the bottom one lightly support the object off a flat table top, producing a sensation of levitation. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/tray1.jpg" width="670" height="400" width_o="803" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/tray1_o.jpg" data-mid="1679367" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/Slide4.jpg" width="670" height="284" width_o="1130" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/Slide4_o.jpg" data-mid="1679370" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/Slide8.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="718" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/Slide8_o.jpg" data-mid="1679371" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/lautanen2.jpg" width="670" height="288" width_o="1116" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/lautanen2_o.jpg" data-mid="1679372" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/tarjotin_veget2.jpg" width="472" height="480" width_o="472" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/tarjotin_veget2_o.jpg" data-mid="1679373" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/Slide9.jpg" width="670" height="188" width_o="1707" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/Slide9_o.jpg" data-mid="1679374" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/Slide7.jpg" width="627" height="480" width_o="627" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381072/Slide7_o.jpg" data-mid="1679375" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.sotamaa.net/aDrift http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/aDrift Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:25 +0000 Sotamaa 384278 “ Italo Calvino devotes his fifth of his ‘Six Memos for the next Millennium’ to what he calls multiplicity – the idea that literature should encompass the variety, breadth and emotional richness of the modern self. The project embodies something close to this idea. Using computer software, the designers have moulded a series of three-dimensional shapes that would result from wrapping a thin skin of titanium around ceramic capsule containers. The shapes would be different because the contents would be different, but all would be smooth, tactile things embodying doves, porpoises, whipped cream, fine sand, powder snow, the curve of a woman’s torso painted by Ingres.” Herbert Muschamp The New York Times Magazine 05’12’99 In 1999 the New York Times organized an invited competition for the design of a Time Capsule required to last 1000 years. aDrift was an entry designed by Kivi & Tuuli Sotamaa, Birger Sevaldson, Johan Bettum and Michael Hensel. The content of the capsule was to be specified by the readers of New York Times as a selection of items that would communicate our culture at the close of the 2nd millennium. Our scheme aimed at facilitating the design of an unlimited amount of variations on one generic design solution. Each one of the designed capsules was to consist of an inner and an outer capsule and was configured around two inner chambers nested within the inner ceramic capsule, with the form of the chambers emerging around the specific set of items contained within. This was achieved by the use of a digital animation method that draped surfaces around each specific set of items, evolving in this way the form of the inner capsule. With each new set of contents a new form emerged that made each inner capsule highly individual while remaining part of the same family of derivations. The outer titanium shell was then draped around the inner capsule and its form adjusted for aqua-dynamic performance. In this way the capsules themselves would be carriers of information able to convey the co-related design sensibility and technological and material manufacturing capability of our culture. After their production the capsules would be transported to the Antarctic to be buried in the ice in different locations. The capsules would be contained in the ice until natural glacial movements and melting would dispatch them into the seawater. A monitoring system, which would register the movement of the capsules in the oceans, once they were released from the ice, would be installed in New York. Signals would be transmitted from the capsules by a system empowered by seawater batteries. The future of the capsules would depend on their possible release from their entombment in the ice and their respective journeys with the oceanic currents. Subjected to forces of transience and change, one could no longer predict the destiny of the capsules. Thus, while the scale of the receptacles is at the opposite end of that of a monument, the trajectory of each would be monumental in its vast trajectory of movement across space over time. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod01_640.jpg" width="640" height="338" width_o="1417" height_o="749" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod01_o.jpg" data-mid="1695128" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod02_640.jpg" width="640" height="444" width_o="1417" height_o="984" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod02_o.jpg" data-mid="1695129" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod03_640.jpg" width="640" height="338" width_o="1890" height_o="999" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod03_o.jpg" data-mid="1695130" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod04_640.jpg" width="640" height="420" width_o="1417" height_o="930" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod04_o.jpg" data-mid="1695131" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod05_640.jpg" width="640" height="359" width_o="1417" height_o="796" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod05_o.jpg" data-mid="1695136" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod06_640.jpg" width="640" height="394" width_o="1417" height_o="873" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/384278/NytMod06_o.jpg" data-mid="1695137" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.sotamaa.net/Extraterrain http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/Extraterrain Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:24 +0000 Sotamaa 380993 Extraterrain was designed by Kivi Sotamaa & Markus Holmsten. It is conceived as an extension of urban surface into the scale of furniture. Extraterrains did not inherit any prescriptive tradition of use or particular utilization, their momentary usefulness is determined by the ongoing interaction between users and the terrain. The topological surface of the Extraterrain produces a space for social, political and economic exchange – both on an individual and collective level. The folded, complex or warped surface does not instill the stability required for static hierarchies to be established and become reified. In order to optimise the design potential and suspend associations to typology and preconceived ideas, the surface was develop by using the method of sampling. A library of reference forms was assembled from 3D military aircraft models. Through combinatory re-assembly, transformation and extrapolation, a series of topologies were designed and tested against different criteria, including structural strength. The final object was produced by vacuum forming ABS plastics. The vacuum formed ABS surfaces were reinforced by spraying high-density polyurethane on the backside. In the product, the two materials are separated by a film that allows for separation and recycling. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/380993/BLACK 1.jpg" width="425" height="296" width_o="425" height_o="296" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/380993/BLACK 1_o.jpg" data-mid="1679045" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/380993/RED.jpg" width="425" height="305" width_o="425" height_o="305" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/380993/RED_o.jpg" data-mid="1679049" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/380993/SURFACE.jpg" width="425" height="421" width_o="425" height_o="421" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/380993/SURFACE_o.jpg" data-mid="1679051" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.sotamaa.net/Chamberworks http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/Chamberworks Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:23 +0000 Sotamaa 390362 Chamberworks was a temporary installation organised by Johan Bettum and designed by Kivi Sotamaa, Johan Bettum, Kim B Larsen, Birger Sevaldson, Markus Holmsten & Michael Hensel for a gallery in Oslo in June 98. The installation consisted of welded steel rods and tubes painted white; an motion-triggered, interactive light-scheme; a soundscape using 4 loud-speakers, one positioned in each corner of the room; and a video showing advanced 3D modelling of vortex phenomena. The continueous curved and linear steel elements were pre-formed and welded together in the gallery. The floor and walls of the gallery were painted white. The aim of the project was to create a space with complex and changing interaction between the visitor, the spatial frame of the gallery and the material, structural, and ambient constitutive systems in the installation. The overall product was seen to reflect, in a simple and microscopic fashion, the ever-changing intensities and flows of contemporary urban space. The project provided a space for the unfolding of a simple, dynamic relationship between visitor, spatial frame of the gallery and the material and ambient constitutive systems of the installation. The available space for the visitors’ movement was articulated as a knotted loop allowing for various routes through the installation. The ambient conditions produced by the motion-triggered light and sound systems resulted in changing virtual space characterised by varied intensities and distribution of light and sound relative to the visitors’ movement. A visitor’s choice of route through the installation was partly influenced by these ambient effects – again triggered by the co-presence of other visitors in the gallery. The choreography of the linear and curved physical elements produced perceivable inter-relations between sub-spaces in the gallery that changed from affiliate to non-congruent according to exact geometrical boundary conditions drawn by the tubes and rods. The bundle of linear and curved elements engendered a transparent topology of emergent forms. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks01_7.jpg" width="600" height="480" width_o="600" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks01_7_o.jpg" data-mid="1725230" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks04.jpg" width="595" height="480" width_o="595" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks04_o.jpg" data-mid="1725231" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks09_1.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks09_1_o.jpg" data-mid="1725232" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks10_2.jpg" width="670" height="444" width_o="724" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks10_2_o.jpg" data-mid="1725233" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks11_3.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/chamberworks11_3_o.jpg" data-mid="1725234" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/Chamberworks_dig07_4.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/Chamberworks_dig07_4_o.jpg" data-mid="1725239" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/Chamberworks_dig08_5.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/Chamberworks_dig08_5_o.jpg" data-mid="1725240" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/Chamberworks_dig10_6.jpg" width="670" height="423" width_o="759" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390362/Chamberworks_dig10_6_o.jpg" data-mid="1725241" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.sotamaa.net/Multiplicities http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/Multiplicities Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:22 +0000 Sotamaa 381065 Multiplities installation was designed by Kivi & Tuuli Sotamaa. The project explores ambiguity as a formal technique for producing sensation. The CNC milled foam panels are inserted into the existing wall of a space and covered with plaster and paint in order to make them appear as a continuous, permanent part of the building. The undulating form of the resulting wall surface is so subtle that it seems to hover between an optical illusion and a sculptural effect. The installation is a like cloud - the experience of it changes dramatically as the viewing angle and distance vary, producing a multiplicity of sensations. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381065/multiplicities02.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381065/multiplicities02_o.jpg" data-mid="1679298" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381065/multiplicities01.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/381065/multiplicities01_o.jpg" data-mid="1679299" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.sotamaa.net/Habitare-97 http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/Habitare-97 Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:19 +0000 Sotamaa 382972 The Habitare 97 installation was designed by Kivi Sotamaa and Markus Holmsten. It explored the production of a rich spatial and visual experience through innovative configuration of the constituent elements of the exhibition and use of lighting coupled with effect producing synthetic materials. The installation is based on a loose organization of free-floating elements that is presented as an alternative to the normative orthogonal and grounded organizations conventionally employed for design constructs. The different architectural elements are organized according to an imaginary flow through space. Each element is different yet concurrent to the others; together they form a continuous mixture that is freely distributed in space. The continuously shifting relationship between the constituent systems of the installation - people, transparent suspended surfaces, two landscaped ground surfaces, the exhibits, lighting and graphics – produce a rich spatial experience and give people an unusual point of view to the exhibits themselves. The suspended architectural elements are made of a steel tubular frame that is sheathed with layers of plastic film and the grounded elements are made of veneer with a matte black finish. The use of varying thicknesses of transparent film together with lighting fixtures that mingle over and under the elements, and the movement of the plastic surfaces caused by airflow in the space produced a complex set of “oceanic” visual effects against which the opaque objects stood out. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382972/habitare97_01.jpg" width="428" height="480" width_o="428" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382972/habitare97_01_o.jpg" data-mid="1688574" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382972/habitare97_02.jpg" width="480" height="480" width_o="480" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382972/habitare97_02_o.jpg" data-mid="1688577" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382972/habitare97_03.jpg" width="625" height="480" width_o="625" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382972/habitare97_03_o.jpg" data-mid="1688578" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382972/habitare97_04.jpg" width="480" height="480" width_o="480" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382972/habitare97_04_o.jpg" data-mid="1688580" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.sotamaa.net/Valo http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/Valo Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:17 +0000 Sotamaa 390201 Valo Festival of Finnish culture consists of a multitude of events and installations throughout the Barbican building. The installations range from multimedia to textiles and the events range from Sibelius concerts to Finnish tango. The exhibition design was created by Kivi Sotamaa & Markus Holmsten. It consists of spatial structures Surfscapes, lighting installations, stands and cases, graphic elements, artworks and events. Surfscapes are the instruments for blending together the disparate elements of the Festival into a continuous mixture. They are large folded surfaces that create a sequence of spaces throughout the Barbican foyers, galleries and outdoor spaces as well. The Surfscapes constitute a continuous landscape where the different elments are freely distributed. The heterogeneous mixture of freely distributed elements delivers a highly varied range of spatial experiences as people flow through the exhibitions. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/Barbican01.jpg" width="670" height="435" width_o="2048" height_o="1329" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/Barbican01_o.jpg" data-mid="1724416" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/Barbican02.jpg" width="670" height="440" width_o="2048" height_o="1347" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/Barbican02_o.jpg" data-mid="1724419" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/Barbican03.jpg" width="670" height="426" width_o="2048" height_o="1302" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/Barbican03_o.jpg" data-mid="1724424" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/janna3.jpg" width="640" height="406" width_o="640" height_o="406" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/janna3_o.jpg" data-mid="1724354" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/pertti-1.jpg" width="670" height="437" width_o="735" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/390201/pertti-1_o.jpg" data-mid="1724355" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.sotamaa.net/ARS-01 http://www.sotamaa.net/following/sotamaa.net/ARS-01 Wed, 09 May 2012 06:26:15 +0000 Sotamaa 382979 ARS01 was designed by Kivi and Tuuli Sotamaa with Michael Hensel. The exhibition design for ARS 01 synthesises the character of the location -Kiasma, an architecture that articulates space by folding upon itself -with the concept for the exhibition itself -an unfolding of multiplicituous, perspectives, artworks, contexts, influences and new ways of experiencing art. The exhibition architecture takes literal the central aim of the exhibition to provide for new ways of viewing and experiencing art -beyond the potential of the artwork itself -towards a new relation between art and its hosting environment. Through a double movement of enfolding and peeling of material surfaces the space of Kiasma is intensified and the artworks are embraced by surfaces. This offers a less disruptive strategy than framing artworks which commonly results in a disjunction between artwork and exhibition space. The primary role of the exhibition architectures is to mediate between the Kiasma building and the artworks,to create a dynamically intermeshed set of relations between both. Less manipulated areas, in which the architecture is hardly visible, change gradually into moments were architecture takes on more active roles, for example as furniture landscapes that services audiences viewing work, and highly articulated moments in the circulation spaces, were the architecture becomes an ambiguous mediation between the sculptural and the architectural. The architecture is a continuous weft between the building, the visitor and the artwork. It smoothly moves between different roles -that of the mediator, background, furniture or artwork itself. The exhibition architecture lays-out and makes possible numerous routes through the exhibition in spite of the linear organisation of the Kiasma building. In doing so the exhibition architecture enables multiple exiting perspectives and juxtapositions of the artworks. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars01_640.jpg" width="640" height="740" width_o="1112" height_o="1287" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars01_o.jpg" data-mid="1695817" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars02_640.jpg" width="640" height="526" width_o="1361" height_o="1119" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars02_o.jpg" data-mid="1695818" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars03_640.jpg" width="640" height="468" width_o="1472" height_o="1078" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars03_o.jpg" data-mid="1695819" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars04_640.jpg" width="640" height="479" width_o="1736" height_o="1300" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars04_o.jpg" data-mid="1695820" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars05_640.jpg" width="640" height="468" width_o="1466" height_o="1074" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars05_o.jpg" data-mid="1695821" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars06_640.jpg" width="640" height="516" width_o="1332" height_o="1075" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars06_o.jpg" data-mid="1695822" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars07_640.jpg" width="640" height="860" width_o="878" height_o="1181" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/31598/382979/Ars07_o.jpg" data-mid="1695823" border="0" align="left"/>