Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU

Assembly of 27 generation 3, 39 generation 4, and 56 generation 5 modules (from The Evening Line), 2008

Modular construction: Aluminium alloy, black epoxy with aggregate coating
300 x 600 x 320 cm
Fabrication: Sheetfabs, Nottingham
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

The open cellular structure of The Morning Line is built from an idealized ‘universal bit’, the truncated tetrahedron which is expressed as “drawing in space” and can be reconfigured into a diversity of architectural forms and arrangements. The artist Matthew Ritchie and Aranda\Lasch architects developed these stackable and packable elements in multiple generations of fractals. The architectural and engineering systems capitalize on recent developments in parametric design engineered by Arup AGU. So far realized in the form of the anti-pavilion The Morning Line (currently in Seville, Spain) and the installation The Evening Line for the Venice Architecture Biennale, the project uses a type of stochastic algorithmic thinking, a procedural, rule-based and systemic production process and complex stacking and connection systems that would allow the structure to proliferate in space.

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU,