casey hughes architects + hiroshi jacobs: flatland installation

with 10,000 feet of custom-made red and blue bungee cord and 1,000 hardware connections, 
sixty individual lines commence at the entrance on cambridge street and continue down the facade. 
the idea is based on the concept of creating volume and form with a one dimensional surface. 
the structure combines mathematical efficiency with economical sustainability and durability 
resulting in a complex range of spaces that play with visual scale and enclosure. the form morphs 
and alters with the changing of one's vantage point, adding lightness and dynamism to
an otherwise solid and fixed facade.  

 

the title comes from edwin a. abbot's 1884 novel, about a two-dimentional world and a square 
who discovers the world of three-dimensionality.