Variable Dynamic Spaces

Project: E-Motive House (2002)
Office: ONL (Rotterdam)
Client: ONL Research Work





ONL is an architectural office, based in Rotterdam-Holland(1990), created by Kas Oosterhuis and Ilona Lenard. Kas Oosterhuis works as a professor for Architectural Design and Design Methods at the Delft University of Technology and he is the director of the Hyperbody Research Group. Ilona Lenard is a certified actress and sculptor.
The office combines visionary design strategies with super knowledge of innovative mass customs production methods, allowing the construction of geometrically complex architecture.
The E-Motive House is a research project, experimenting on interacting spaces. Its form is a long movable space with two solid blocks on both ends. The space in between, changes its shape and content, depending on the weather and the movement of its inhabitants, therefore changing the geometry and developing its own emotion.
Its structure is a weaving loom, between hard and soft structure, consisting of wooden beams on one hand and long shaped inflatable chambers on the other. The interaction of these two structures is based on the game development program Virtools, and the reaction of this space will always be different as a result of complex consideration between various factors.
At the end the E-Motive House experience, gives to the inhabitants a feeling of a real time interaction, like learning to live in an environment with an own mind.

Book Refernce: ONL Hyperbody Logic