The Accelerated Ruin
A Public Art Project at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of
Music)
by Timothy Hull and Future Expansion Architects
On Display: Summer 2012-2013
In
the Fall of 2011 BAM held a competition for public art projects to commemorate
the institutionŐs 150th anniversary.
Our
proposal for a sculpture that undergoes an uncontrolled decomposition, an
accelerated ruination, was selected from
the
more than one-hundred proposals submitted at the end of the year.
In
partnership with Ecovative, an innovative material
development company in Green Island, NY that grows threadlike
mycelium
cells (mushroom roots) and hemp into a completely biodegradable foam-like
substance,
we
modified a manufacturing process for small consumer products to create a system
for making building-scale
components. And while the exterior of the sculpture
is composed of this organic, decomposing cladding,
the
internal substructure is comprised of soaring aluminum rods on a gray stepped
classical plinth, which will all slowly reveal
itself
over the course of a year.
The
Accelerated Ruin is located at 651 Fulton street, Brooklyn, NY and will be unveiled June 19th,
2012.
The
ruin will be visible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will be atmospherically
lit at night.
TRACK
THE ACCELERATED RUIN ON TUMBLR