Project Requiem: The Sculptures Have Been Built!

Latest update from Project Requiem ... our Kinect data-derived sculptures have now been fabricated by Tim Hall in glorious sheet steel!  Tim provided these sneak peaks of the sculptures as they awaited their respective paint-jobs.   Not long now until they're looking resplendent on the perfect green lawns of the Royal Opera House High House Production Park.

Project Requiem: The Maquettes

The final seven

Yesterday at 2pm, Project Requiem transitioned from digital data to physical forms, as Tim Hall, our fabricator, revealed the laser-cut maquettes of our seven Requiem-derived sculptures.  There was a real sense of excitement as Tim unwrapped the bubble wrap and we could see the sculptures-to-be for the first time.  Now all you have to do is imagine them four times as large, welded together from sheet steel and painted in solid, bright colours... 

Dies Irae

Offertorio

Sanctus

Libera Me

Lux Aterna

Project Requiem - The Final Seven

From the submissions we could only pick one sculpture for each of the seven parts of Verdi’s Requiem.
These are the seven sculptures that were picked.

Because of the complex and varied nature of these sculptures we needed to find a common method of abstraction in order for these sculptures to be fabricated. The method we chose involved processing each sculpture into seven flat, interlocking shapes, which are generated from their profile at seven equidistant angles. Think of them as snapshots, which when recombined, form a buildable structure, which derives from its original sculpture.

Requiem

Dies Irae

Offertorio

Sanctus

Agnus Dei

Lux Aterna

Libera Me

The outcome of this is that we now have our final seven sculptures representing the seven movements of Verdi’s Requiem. You can view the all the turnarounds in the following playlist. (Note the colours used in these turnarounds do not represent the final chosen colours.)

Ethan Shilling

Project Requiem - The Student Submissions

Today we are presenting the complete catalogue of sculptures submitted for the project.

I’ve compiled a playlist of all the turnarounds. There’s 42 in total so it’s quite a marathon!

For those with less time on their hands, here a quick overview of every sculpture.

Requiem

Dies Irae

Offertorio

Sanctus

Agnus Dei

Lux Aterna

Libera Me

In the next post we will be revealing which sculptures were picked to form the final set of seven.

Ethan Shilling