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

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.