Artificial Spaces

  • Year: 2023
  • Type: Interactive Installation
  • In collaboration with: SomeForm Studio
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five
Artificial Spaces - Six N.Five

In collaboration with SomeForm Studio, we created a procedural interactive installation launched in the exhibition “Digital Impact”, on show from 28th of April to 27th of August 2023 in Disseny Hub, Barcelona.

The installation is capable of generating architectural spaces on the fly and letting the audience interactively explore the environments by changing the direction of the sunlight shining through the concrete structures.

This project aims to explore the in-between of different disciplines, looking to highlight the common factor “Beauty” present in all of them, and asking a fundamental question of our time: Can we automate the creation of what we as humans deem beautiful?

From automating creative processes to challenging them as the protagonists themselves, the project aims to instil creativity into the machine. Therefore, it closely ties in with our previous explorations of systematising complex design systems and automating creative decision making.

Disciplines such as architecture, photography, generative design, art and programming converge in a single software capable of creating unique and unrepeatable results. Resulting in an infinite world of artificially generated architectural spaces, created within our rules giving them a bit of our humanity, and questioning what beauty really means to us.

By automating the rules of architecture and combining them with intelligent functions that assess the created environment, we were able to create a procedural solution that can generate an infinite number of architectural environments that feel realistic and livable. The algorithmic creation of these spaces is specifically tailored to generate results that convey a sense of visual beauty, a notion of imaginative spaces that go beyond mere architectural visualisation.

Created in Unreal Engine 5, the software driving the installation is a procedural system capable of generating architectural spaces procedurally and rendering them in real-time.

As part of the installation, the audience is able to manually generate new spaces by clicking the smaller circular button and control the direction of the sun by rotating the larger disc – a minimalistic inverted sundial that controls the time of day rather than informing about it.

The two devices were created specifically for this installation. They are build using a custom 3D printed interior that houses the technology and a shell of heavy xyrarock that conveys a sense of tactility referencing architectural materials.

Credits

Created by Six N. Five and SomeForm.

Creative Team
someform Studio & SixNFive with support from SecondaryBounce

Devices
Julius Steinhauser

Sound
Olga Wojciechowska

Contact

Carrer Pere IV 205, Local
08018 Barcelona
Spain
info@sixnfive.com


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Selected projects with

Burberry, Cartier, Meta, Givenchy, Hunter, Ikea, Massimo Dutti, Microsoft, Nike, Rimowa, Apple, Samsung, Space 10, Spotify, LG, Daniel Arsham, Bofill Arquitectura



Six N.Five
Talks

Lad 2016, Lima (PE)
Udem 2016, Monterrey (MEX)
Offf 2016, Barcelona (ES)
Congreso 4GN 2016, Bogotá (COL)
Showcase ITCH 2017, Guatemala (GUA)
Brief Festival 2017, Madrid (ES)
Offf TLV 2018, Tel Aviv (ISR)
Mesura Talks 2019, Barcelona (ES)
My Barrio Stories 2019, Barcelona (ES)
Offf x Blancfest 2019, Barcelona (ES)
VW T-Cross Creativity Fest 2019, Madrid (ES)
Domestikart 2019, Barcelona (ES)
Medellin Design Week 2019, Medellín (COL)
US By Night 2019, Antwerp (BEL)
Chic & Basic Hotel 2019, Barcelona (ES)
CaixaForum Talks March 2021 Palma de Mallorca, (ES)
CxF April 2021 Sevilla, (ES)
CxF Talks May 2021 Barcelona, (ES)
CaixaForum Talks March 2021 Palma de Mallorca, (ES)
Arquitectura y Metaverso 2022, Barcelona (ES)



Press

iGNANT, Nowness, Instagram, Designboom, Sight Unseen, Frame Magazine, Gestalten, Icon Design Italy, Hypebae, Hypebeast, Wallpaper Magazine, Etapes, Highsnobiety, Fubiz, METAL Magazine, Neo2 Magazine, Victionary, Deezen, VisualPleasure Mag, Arquitectura y Diseño, It’s Nice That, Yellowtrace, Stash, Motionographer, Adobe, Trendland, Vice, Vogue Spain, Hi-Fructuose Magazine, Viewpoint, Collater.all, El Pais, La Nacion, Domus Nova, Booooooom, AD Magazine.



Exhibitions and Mentions

2017 – Projection Installation w/Studio Urquiola x Ferragamo Palazzo Mezzanotte, Milan, Italy
2017 – Exploring Spaces of Tomorrow x Space10
London Design Festival, England
2017 – Video projection collab x Nike w/ Unit9
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2019 Holo-Scandinavian Chair, Fuorisalone – Meet My Project,  Milan, Italy
2019 AD100 Designer of the year, Architectural Digest Spain.
2021 Plan X Gallery, Lost in Crypto – Milan, Italy
2021 ABV Gallery – Atlanta, US
2021 AD100 Designer of the year – Architectural Digest Germany and Italy.
March 2022 DART, Museo Della Permanente – Milan, Italy
April 2022 Decentral Art Pavilion, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin. Venice, Italy
May 2022 Collectible Design Fair – Brussels, Belgium
June 2022 Art Basel – Basel, Switzerland
2022-2023 The Circle, Moco Museum – AMS, Netherlands & BCN, Spain.
June 2022 The Red Spot, Somewhere Ethereal – Fotograsfika Stockholm
October 2022 06:05am – Once upon a time in Mayfair, Phillips London, UK
December 2022 Cycles – Oxford Street (W1 Curates) London, UK
April 2023 Flow – Sotheby’s Hong Kong, CH
May 2023 Among the Sky – 6n5 x LG Art Lab, Frieze NY, US
April 2023 Artificial Spaces, Museu del Disenny, Barcelona, SP
October 2023 Symphony of Nature, Moco Museum Amsterdam, NL
November 2023-January 2024 Memories of Tomorrow, Shanghai, China



Six N. Five is the artistic name of Ezequiel Pini’s work, an award-winning Argentinian designer and digital artist based in Barcelona

Over the last decade, Pini has pioneered the use of 3D to create imaginary, dreamlike worlds with his signature clean, modern aesthetic, making Six N. Five one of today’s most recognized digital artists. His work incorporates different mediums to explore imaginary spaces, moving stories and physical collectibles.

His extensive experience working with esteemed brands and artists includes several exhibitions in Art Basel, Moco Museum, Fotografiska Stockholm, Museo della Permanente, and the recent creation of Microsoft Windows 11 and Microsoft Surface wallpapers.

His refined imagination, poetic compositions, avant-garde mind, and elegant skills make Six N. Five stand out for its uniqueness and purity of results.

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