The installation is a dynamic immersive environment that embodies the Waltz experience.
Strips are the material system in use, their movement symbolizes the evolution of vectors distribution on the sculpture during the Waltz progress.
The project explores the role of the individual within the collective as an everchanging search for flexibility: we are particularly interested in the emergent modifications of the global environment according to the movement evolution of every single strip.
The form-finding design process leads the development of the tectonic model and the differentiation of it.
We used computer generated modeling techniques to understand parametrically the material performances, introducing deformation, decay, growth and mutations through their manipulations. In the same time we built a physical prototype to test the spatial performance.
The system has been studied according to specific variables such as spatial articulation, surface-volume duality, density, light distribution. Each of the variables affects the model in a way that can be measured according to certain effects we regard as "operational".
Thus, the tectonic system developed in the first stage can be reconfigured according to several criteria proposed by site-related conditions and programmatic requirements. This means that the environment configuration is completely flexible and can be manipulated according to the context in which it’s located.
The scene volume is reconfigured by the performers during the action, according to some visual maps.