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2005 UK Award Part 1
Harmonic Proportion in Amorphic Form: A Music Pavilion in Hyde Park, London

Benjamin Koren used software he wrote, “3D Digital Harmonograph,” to generate the form for a music pavilion.

Benjamin Koren
University College London
Bartlett School of Architecture

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Guy Battle
Roger Kallman
Amanda Levete
Jane Wernick
Ross Wimer

This project proposes a music pavilion whose form was generated by software I wrote, the “3D Digital Harmonograph.” This is based on a mechanical device said to visualize musical harmony by drawing apparently spatial graphs. I developed actual 3D single-looping line graphs by adding a dimension, employed Fibonacci number ratios and harmonics thereof, and translated them into proportionate continuous surface-meshes. Each form exhibits intrinsic mathematical properties whose articulation into discrete architectural elements retains the graph’s aesthetic sensibility in spatial form. I considered various forms in response to the brief and advanced one from its abstract roots into a realistic proposal.

Visualizing musical harmony. © Benjamin Koren.

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Frequency ratios. © Benjamin Koren.

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Variety of forms. © Benjamin Koren.

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Main approach. © Benjamin Koren.

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Secondary approach. © Benjamin Koren.

Benjamin Koren
University College London
Bartlett School of Architecture

Benjamin Koren

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