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Surrounded Islands

CHRISTO

On May 7, 1983 the installation of Surrounded Islands was completed. In Biscayne Bay, between the city of Miami, North Miami, the Village of Miami Shores and Miami Beach, 11 of the islands situated in the area of Bakers Haulover Cut, Broad Causeway, 79th Street Causeway, Julia Tuttle Causeway, and Venetian Causeway were surrounded with 585,000 square meters (6.5 million square feet) of pink woven polypropylene fabric covering the surface of the water, floating and extending out 61 meters (200 feet) from each island into the Bay. The fabric was sewn into 79 patterns to follow the contours of the 11 islands.

For 2 weeks Surrounded Islands spreading over 11.3 kilometers (7 miles) was seen, approached and enjoyed by the public, from the causeways, the land, the water and the air. The luminous pink color of the shiny fabric was in harmony with the tropical vegetation of the uninhabited verdant island, the light of the Miami sky and the colors of the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay.

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BELLAGIO FOUNTAIN


turning music into solid water

Bellagio_ music, water and light

A musical fountain is a type of animated fountain for entertainment purposes that creates an aesthetic design and sometimes a three-dimensional image. This is done by using the effects of timed sound waves and timed light or laser against water particles. The water refracts and reflects the light, and in doing so, a three-dimensional image can be created.

Some are large scale, and use hundreds of water jets and laser emitters, the cost of which runs up into the millions of dollars, although smaller household forms exist where the budget ranges to around athousand dollars.

Pavarotti's song "Time to say goodbye" played with water

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MAGIC FOUNTAIN, Barcelona


water into the the solid history of a city

magic fountain

The Magic Fountain of Montjuïc (Font màgica de Montjuïc in both Catalan and Spanish) is a fountain located at the head of Avenida Maria Cristina in the Montjuïcneighborhood of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The Magic Fountain was designed by Carles Buigas, who had designed illuminated fountains as early as 1922. The site where the fountain was constructed was the previous location of The Four Columns. The columns, representative of the Catalanism movement, were removed under the rule of Prime Minister Migel Primo de Rivera.

In the 1980s, music was incorporated with the light show and the fountain, along with the Museu Nacional, was completely restored prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics, held at Montjuïc. Performances include film, classical, and modern music, such as The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, a Spanish zarzuela movement, and "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé.

The light and music performances from October to April take place on Fridays and Saturdays every half-hour between 7:00 and 8:30pm.

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OCEANOGRAFIC by Calatrava
how to liquefy architecture

CALATRAVA

Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanisharchitect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zürich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zürich, Paris, Valencia, and New York City.

L'Oceanogràfic is a marine complex situated in the east of the city of Valencia, Spain, where different marine habitats are represented (seas and oceans of approximately 100,000 m²). It is integrated inside a complex known as the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències.

L'Oceanogràfic is the largest complex of its type in all of Europe and has 45,000 animals of 500 different species.

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THE PAVILION by Mies van der Rohe -Barcelona-


interaction between marble and water

Mies van der Rohe

The pavilion was going to be bare—no trade exhibits—just the structure, a single sculpture and purpose-designed furniture (the Barcelona Chair). This lack of accommodation enabled Mies to treat the Pavilion as a continuous space; blurring inside and outside. "The design was predicated on an absolute distinction between structure and enclosure—a regular grid of cruciform steel columns interspersed by freely spaced planes". However, the structure was more of a hybrid style, some of these planes also acted as supports.The floor plan is very simple. The entire building rests on a plinth of travertine. A southern U-shaped enclosure, also of travertine, helps form a service annex and a large water basin. The floor slabs of the pavilion project out and over the pool—once again connecting inside and out.

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GLASS


temperature modifies material from liquid to solid

glass manufactoring

Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle, and often optically transparent.

The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, made of about 75% silica (SiO₂) plus Na₂O, CaO, and several minor additives. Often, the term glass is used in a restricted sense to refer to this specific use.

In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (i.e. amorphous) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications (bottles, eyewear) polymer glasses (acrylic glass, polyethylene terephthalate) are a lighter alternative to traditional silica glasses.

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Bruno Cappelletti

Bruno Capelletti is an italian sculptor that uses wood or marble to make his sculpture but also he uses Ice.

Ice’s Sculpture is not a permanent artwork, but it has a short life.

The construction of ice Macugnaga, despite the criticism of the usual ill-informed, will be at almost no cost to the coffers of the municipality. Will instead be the tourist districtof the Lakes and Valleys, and the Province of Verbano Cusio Ossola to fund the project.

Dr. Antonio Longo Dorn, President of the District, during a press conferenceconvened by the Mayor of Macugnaga, Giovanni Boldini, he passionately explainedthe reasons for this effort, highlighting the promotional boost that this type of project to the area.

Longodorni also stressed that this year will be only the experimental realization of amuch more demanding, which will arise next winter, just Macugnaga, the first ItalianIce Hotel. For the latter, "building" is intended to move well 700/800 tons of snow and ice.

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ALLAN KAPROW_FLUIDS

http://www.moca.org/kaprow/index.php/category/fluids/

The Happening is an art from was born in the work of Allan Kaprow(18 Happening in 6 Parts in N.Y,1959) and focuses not so much in the object but in the event that you can organize, the "happening"is a form of theatre where various elements alogical, including tha action on the stage without the matrix, are mounted togher and deliberately organized and compartamentalized structure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happening

In this Happening Fluid, artists is  building a wall with a “ice-brick”. The destiny of this artwork is dissolve itself