(Abitare) Inifinte Wirrwarr

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/ text byUmi / photos by Jrgen Mayer H.

J. Mayer H.

Jrgen Mayer

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Jrgen Mayer H.

Wirrwarr

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Mayer H.

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Opening up he webpage o German archiecure oce J.Mayer H., a ow o daa lls he screen in a Marix ashion.

Wha is i- secre codes, decoraion elemens, or an archiecuralmanieso? Te archiec Jrgen Mayer H., on his way oarchiecure sardom, presens us wih a line o works wihgroovy orms. Bu being groovy is no as imporan as hemessage behind, wha could ha be? Jrgen Mayer H. recenlypublished a seemingly bizarre book called Wirrwarr

A German-English dicionary ranslaes i as hurly-burly,admitedly, paying ribue o he patern o he word), an archiveo his years-long collecion o wha he calls daa-proecionpaterns, i.e. he paterns prined in he inside o envelopes soha people canno decipher he leters conen by holding iagains he ligh.Tese paterns appear in Jrgen Mayer H.s works, someimes asvisual eaures, someimes as srucural elemens. Bu he spaialsraegy ha he archiec adops in designing exhibiion space,archiecure and urban vision, can be debaed - one canno grasp

Infinite WirrwarrThere is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited

realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges

i rom Wirrwarr, which, by inenion or no, well s he agendao he book, o conceal and o proec. Inrigued by his, AbiareChina speaks wih Jrgen Mayer H. o explore his world oinnie paterns. As much un-archiecural as i may seem, imaps (par o) he inerior o an archiecs mind.Abitare Looking a he sheer visuals o he paterns rom yourbook, I sared o projec hem ino a hree dimensional space.Could i be one way you see hem?

Jrgen Mayer H.Yes. Tere are dieren aspecs o paterns.Firs, I like i as surace, here are very clear sraegies, shownin he paterns. Daa proecion patens are like inormaioncamouage echniques: hey conrol wha is readable and visibleand wha is no. Tis selecive qualiy is very archiecural oo.Archiecure is a skin beween inside and ouside, beween publicand he privae, exposed and inimae. Paterns are envelopes osomehing concealed inside - only he window on an envelopewhere you see he posal address makes i specic o he persons.Similar in archiecure, windows allow you o look inside and see

Above:Jrgen Mayer H.

recently published a book nam

Wirrarran archive of h

years-long collection of what

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AABeyond Entropy

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Octobar

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Bruno LatourPeter

Slotherdijk

Heat. Seat

below:Heat. Seat Chairs with

temperature sensitive surface, when

you sit on it, the color disappears,

and after you leave it, it cools

off, the color comes back.


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he inerior space and personal lives, where he acades o hebuildings ac as a skin.Ten, when you look a our work, we ake he paterns and ofeninerpre hem hree dimensionally, in a way we ry o inhabiexacly ha space o negoiaion beween he inside and ouside,privae and public. Tas he ambivalence Im ineresed in.Tere are all dieren kinds o paterns, in he book we have oneha consiss o names o ciies, which muliplied and puogeher, orm his urry o leters. So someimes, heres a ex oread rom he paterns. In A. Way, an urban anasy wepresened or Audi Urban Fuure Award, we designed hepokeville (urban complex) based on a patern made hree

dimensional. I ook rom words relaed o mobiliy andransporaion o consruc i. You see, is mean o be anegoiaor raher han a resoluion.AbitareHow is he ranslaion progress like, ransormingsomehing rom 2D o a real 3D objec or backward?JMH. We did some sudies which we will show in Sepemberin Berlin, where we ake paterns and inerpre hem hreedimensionally. So when you look rom he ronal, you see jus hepatern, and as soon as you urn a litle bi o he side, i becomes alabyrinh o inner srucures, neworks and skeleons.

AbitareTis process reminds o a piece I saw a he BeyondEnropy exhibiion organized by AA School, where a orensicphoo is scanned and 3D prined. Te resuling sculpuredepars rom he original sie represened in he phoo.JMH.A his poin, we are working on he 2D ino 3D process, iwould be ineresing o see in he nex sep how o change i again.Bu you can see perhaps a more realisic ranslaion process in heexhibiion design o he Level Green exhibiion design we didor he Auosad, where media screens and ineracive suracesbecome par o a nework or skeleon srucure.Abitare Ta seems o have somehing o do wih daacollecion, numerical sysem, are hey somehing ha comes ino

he process o patern creaing?JMH.When I was in high school, I specialized in mahemaicsand ne ar. So I have a ineres in he logisics and puriy omahemaics, i balances well he quesion o ruh and logic, anda he same ime allows he libery o criically looking a whayou are doing.Abitare Do you see he world as a nework, or neworkedplace?JMH. Inerdependency migh be a beter way o describe heworld. Inerdependency o colleciviy, reliabiliy and

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Autostadt

Level Green

Above:The exhibition Autos

designed by Jrgen Mayer

H. for Volkswagen Group

Communications Platform

the concept is Level Green.


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RE.FLECKS

This page : Jrgen Mayer H.s

exhibition RE.FLECKS was

opened in Berlin on June 2010.

/photosbyLudgerPaffrath

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Jrgen Mayer H.

Jrgen Mayer H.

Ostfildern

Founded his studio in 1996

Berlin, Germany, J. Mayer H

on works at the intersectionarchitecture, communication

technology. Recent projects

the Town Hall in Ostfildern,

a student center at Karlsruh

University and the redevelop

of the Plaza de la Encarnac

in Sevilla, Spain. From urba

planning schemes and buildi

installation work and object

new materials, the relations

between the human body, te

and nature form the backgr

for a new production of spac

www.jmayerh.de

inerconnecions.AbitareIs here a way o represen i visually?JMH. I hink has wha has been done already. We are moreineresed in producion, or projecion o he connecions.AbitareRigh - bu visuals neverheless deliver he message ohe mos people, or example, he world is a. Connecionsare everywhere, bu on he local level, you see borders - peopleconnec only o wha hey are ineresed in. So he sociologisBruno Laour updaed his idea o he neworked world, inspiredby philosopher Peer Sloherdijk, and came up wih he sphere

model. As a sphere o connecions, I won easily come apar, andheres no a clear disincion beween inside and ouside.JMH. Te sphere model may also be read his way: which everdirecion you go, you will always end up a he same spo, wihsome knowledge accumulaed rom he journey I hink we allry o undersand whas going on around us, and we always haveo readjus he models we propose o he world. Tas he beauyo developing knowledge.Abiare :Wha comes afer he sphere? Id be curious. Bu o goback, I hink patern as a concep has some charm o i.JMH.We didn, however, pu patern in he ile, Wirrwarr is abeter ile, Is a very German word, meaning conusion, a saewihou order. Tis illusraes more o a condiion raher han

objec.AbitareWhere else in lie do you see paterns?JMH. I see hem everywhere, no only as visuals, bu also asriuals, repeiion o daily rouines. You can see i in yoursel oo.I consiues he sabilizaion o lie, bu once in while you wano break hrough i.

Abitare Repeiion o acion can be ineresing o observe, inperormance, when somehing is repeaed or a number o imes,an acion becomes an ac.JMH. In music you can nd paterns oo, especially in elecronicmusic. Also I hink i becomes big in mahemaics, when we alkabou chaos heory. You nd he same orm in microscopicorganisms and a he same ime in somehing as big as he galaxy -reoccurring patern.Abitare ell me abou parameric design, isn i sor o playingin a dieren way wih daa and ormulas?

JMH. Parameric design is helpul i you wan o have a exibledesign process, or more complex orms. I wouldn say our worksis parameric-based. Is oo simplisic in a way, and negaes hebeauy o decision making or, responsibiliies, i you wan o pui ha way. I hink responsibiliies o he auhor (archiec) is sillimporan.Abitare How do you reinven yoursel in design?JMH. Oher han he kind o experimen wih 2D going 3Dmenioned beore, we also reinven maerials and consrucionechnologies. Teres he body echnology weve looked ino haruns parallel o he quesions o paterns. We designed he Hea.Sea chairs wih emperaure sensiive surace, so when you si oni, he color disappears, and afer you leave i, i cools o, he

color comes back. Tis again brings he quesions o wha youconceal, wha you expose, wha is privae, wha is public, verysimilar o wha he daa-proecion paterns are doing. Is aplayul, sensorial way o experimening wih exposure/discreion.

Jrgen Mayer H.

A.way

Below:Jrgen Mayer H.

presentedA.way for

Audi Urban Future Award

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