A piece of the Heatwave radiator by
Joris Laarman, blown up to form a
walk-through cave, became the stand for Belgian radiator
manufacturer
Jaga at the
Salone del Mobile 2007 in Milan.
A month before the fair, creative agency
Topika and Unfold accidentally zoomed
in incredibly close to the radiator’s polygonal surface and
discovered the product’s architectural features. Their joke
about turning one fragment into a building evolved into a brilliant
installation.
A piece of the
Heatwave radiator by
Joris
Laarman, blown up to form a walk-through cave, became the stand
for Belgian radiator manufacturer
Jaga at the Salone del Mobile 2007 in
Milan.
A month before the fair, creative agency
Topika and Unfold accidentally zoomed
in incredibly close to the radiator’s polygonal surface and
discovered the product’s architectural features. Their joke
about turning one fragment into a building evolved into a brilliant
installation.
The blown-up detail was digitally modeled in the space of the
Salone del Mobile’s Zona Tortona. Topika and Unfold needed to
make no changes in the shape of the detail; which fit amazingly
well into the old garage made available for Jaga’s stand.
This digital model with more than 4000 unique triangles was
unfolded and made into a giant cut-out model kit. The outer wall
consists of 512 two-mm-thick, CNC-machined polypropylene sheets
fastened together with flaps, tape and butterfly nuts. A team of
ten people built the 20-x-10-x-14-m structure in about four days.
The construction is comparable to those by Buckminster Fuller, who
proved, with his geodesic domes, that triangular bonds are strong
enough for self-supporting structures
fig. 02-05: photography by David Maesen
other photography by Unfold
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