Five Fragmented Cubes
Five Fragmented Cubes is an Interactive Public Sculpture For The 21st Century. It was designed to celebrate the beauty of complexity. It is made of painted steel and is equipped with stairs and a catwalk that allows visitors to climb up into the sculpture and walk through it. In this way they can not only experience the complexity of the entire exterior of the sculpture, but can also view its complex interior as well.
The sculpture consists of five cube frames that are mounted onto a concrete base. Those cube frames support five additional cube frames that are mounted on the top of them. Each face of the top cube frames has been clad with painted steel sheets that are fitted with support frames. The cladding of each face of the cubes has been subdivided into two triangles. Each of the triangles total dimensions are equal to half of the area of one cube face, and one of those two triangles has been subdivided a second time at one end and folded inward.
All of the triangles have been folded out the same distance from the face of the cube frames and fixed structural into position. The orientation of the position of each triangle relative to the cube face has been rotated randomly in order to increase the perceived complexity of the entire sculpture.
Conceptually, the sculpture explores ways in which a simple system of identical interconnecting and repeating parts can generate extreme perceived complexity, not unlike many objects in nature.
Status: Unbuilt
