Mounting technology ‘dissolve’ in spatial design

Mariska de Leeuw Mariska de Leeuw

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If we are watching a movie, we do not have the idea we are watching movements, but we are present in a virtual world. Architecture creates a distance because of the contrast between the immobility of architecture versus our own moving life. Architects and spatial designers can therefore learn a lot from movies.

In the graduation project of Mariska de Leeuw, assembly techniques have been translated into spatial designs such as this chair. This seat is made with the mounting technique ‘dissolve’. For the movie, this means that a movie image slowly disappears into the next movie image because the previous movie image becomes more and more transparent. In the chair this is translated because the shadow of the chair becomes stronger as soon as sunlight shines. As soon as the sunlight disappears, the chair is more visible than its shadow.

This chair can be viewed at the finals from 5 to 16 July 2017 in the Grote Kerk in Zwolle.

At this location, it is beautiful to see how the environment is incorporated into the design through the use of materials, which fuses the design and the environment.

With this design it becomes clear that designers can extract elements from the movie to use as a means of designing. In this way, architecture fits into the ever-evolving world.