STUDIO WORK IV
Reanimation of a Railway Bridge
2006
by Franz Kropatschek and Christian Tonko
Sectional Perspective
Interior View
Definition of Attractors - Generation of Volumes - Distribution of Transparency
Video Stills - Animated Section
Reanimation of a Railway Bridge
2006
by Franz Kropatschek and Christian Tonko
Sectional Perspective
Interior View
Definition of Attractors - Generation of Volumes - Distribution of Transparency
Video Stills - Animated Section
An abandoned railway bridge provides the site for the implementation of a design strategy inspired by parametric narration. Initially we created an animated section of the bridge whereby the section plane moves along the main axis. The resulting animation provided the canvas for the implementation of our interventions. Along the path of the section plane we defined attractors complementary to the programs we inserted into the animation. Comparably to a plant which grows towards the light the different programs - while moving over the bridge - attempted to grow towards their respective attractors. Once the script was written we were able to quickly generate a large number of different distributions of program by simply changing the configuration of frame number one.