The trade fair appearance presented BMW vehicles from the luxury limousine to the Formula One racing car, from the street to the racing track. The wind tunnel served as formal association. A arrangement of several ribbons was subjected to the influence of particle currents in an animation process. This created a variety of street typologies from an alleyway to a banked corner.
Client | BMW Group |
Location | Auto Salon, Geneva, Schweiz |
Project-Team | Prof. Bernhard Franken, Frank Brammer |
Status | Realised 2001 |
Dimension | 2.800 m² |
Rituals create both movement
and meaning in spaces, as with the liturgy and the theatre, linking the real to the abstract. Ritual is the means of inflecting the sublime and the ethereal into a narrative.