Petar Kufner

Trg Sv. Petra u Sumi

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:27:00 +0000

The project for the main square in Sv. Petar u Sumi, Croatia.
In collaboration with Arch. Eligio Legovic.
Date of realisation: June, 2012.

plan

view 1

view 2

line draw

view

detail

The Bridge between Visual and Aural

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:08:00 +0000

Festival van Vlaanderen Kortrijk 21/04 - 05/05 2013

“[...] the bridge gathers to itself in its own way earth and sky, divinities and mortals.”[1]

Concept The project situates itself at the crossroads between architecture - involving visual and haptic qualities - and sound. It gathers the Heideggerian concept of the fourfold (Earth, Sky, Mortals, Divinities), which I would like to call gaze (visual), embracing Earth and Mortals as something that mortifies, and voice (aural) uniting Sky and Divinities into something that vivifies.[2] While standing on a bridge, a new landmark of the city of Kortrijk, the idea is to mix sonic narratives with a visual journey; to build bridge between aural and visual. This is realized through vibrations within the structure of the bridge and its surrounding environment. The produced sound invites the spectator to stop and focus his/her attention to the view. The narratives are not directly connected to the seen image; they rather serve as a meditative element. Several stops (six sound walks on six bridges) will guide the audience across the river Leie, while discovering the city view from new infrastructural elements (i.e. bridges) through real-time sounds from the surroundings. The river that flows below, the terrain surrounding the bridge and other suitable elements that provide sound through vibrations, such as hollow metal structures and wires connecting different parts of the bridge, will be used as a source. Using hydrophones and contact microphones, movements and vibrations producing sound will show the viewer a vibrant life that goes beyond the visual.[3]
Realisation Each of the (preferably) six bridges will be mapped with hydrophones/ contact microphones (27mm quality piezo element) connected to an amplifier in order to translate the vibration-based input to an audible output. The microphone placement will be decided on the spot. A small box, produced in a recognizable shape, positioned on the bridge, will provide a spot where the spectator can connect his/her headphones and hear the hidden sound.

[1] Martin Heidegger, "Building Dwelling Thinking", Basic Writings, (New York: Routledge, 1993), 355.
[2] Slavoj Zizek, "I Hear you with My Eyes, or, The Invisible Master," Gaze and Voiceas Love Objects, (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996), 93.
[3] Ibid.,

Brussels Story

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:19:00 +0000

A different view of Brussels' city life

The Void between Auditory and Visual domains

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:03:00 +0000

This research starts from the assumption that the representation of reality through an image is flattened and presented on a two-dimensional surface, while sound tends to move through space and therefore no dimensional loss occurs. The aim is to give depth to space through sound by using sight elements (i.e. light and color). This research analyses the internal structure of light and sound as a wave, while searching for a valid model of translation and trying to answer the question is it possible to translate light into sound? Furthermore, in order to see how our brain responds to stimuli, it examines the phenomena of multisensory experience known as synaesthesia and personal subjective experience termed qualia. With the help of examples throughout history such as color organs, abstract cinema and immersive installations, the connection from sound to color and the technologizing of the world will be exposed. By also trying to answer the question can the visually constructed perception of space be enhanced by audio and what happens to our experience? We will see how science and technology have helped humans to overcome their handicaps. On a practical level, a project dealing with transmission will show a kind of synthetic art. By rendering the audible into the visible (i.e. translating light input into audio output) via Pure Data software it exposes concepts such as void, perspective and time, on which the project relies.

Point of View

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:54:00 +0000

L'ambiente come luogo della trasformazione

Communication Within Architectural Projects – Questions of Utopia

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:25:00 +0000

Analysis the communication processes of architectural projects – that is, image as a key element and direct expression of thought as form. Buildings are the synthesis and product of thought represented through symbolic forms, which in most cases recall images, thus they materialize what lives in the imagination. I wish to question the aesthetic concepts that often treat the communication aspect of the project as merely a kind of beautification, decoration or packaging of the final constructed product.
The first part will study the rules of representation and its crisis. Here, the planning process will be analyzed, where the artifact - intended as image and produced form - is conditioned by technology. I will focus on the significant role of tecnoscienza and how this influences invention and creation, often neglecting aspects of the mental process of the planning stage.
The second part of my research deals with the discourse of reality, which nowadays could be considered digital, simplifying virtual reality, or as Deleuze states – an extension of everything that is real. Even though it is hard to imagine a virtual architecture in terms of construction, architects use virtual technology as a tool for the creation of projects, and hence virtuality becomes a sort of extension through which architects view atrophic reality.
The final part of my thesis attempts to illustrate an experimental scene, where the image of architecture and architecture of image are confronted through a process of analysis and elaboration using different tools of representation - digital, traditional and hybrid – in order to demonstrate that whoever deals with the communication aspect of an architectural project is the“director” of a complex process. The project will show examples of architecture, in particular Yona Friedman’s project for the Ville spatiale, which only exist in the virtual realm of imagination.

project description

The idea of realizing a utopia, in other terms, of trying to locate utopia and give it life, from Friedman’s book Utopies réalisables, 1974, according to which utopia is a place where it is possible to fully offer the distance between the project of one desired reality and its production, between desire and satisfaction. Yona Friedman, courtesy the artist

The elaboration of Ville spatiale applied onto the city of Venice, which Friedman have been working on for over fifty years, and which proposed as the theme of a workshop held in Venice in 2009, form the basis of my project developed from Friedman’s sketches, images and models.

My aim is to rebuild and animate the virtual model using 3D software. At this moment, the initial sketch will be compared with the virtual model in an attempt to represent the passage from idea to realization, via animation.

In 1958 Friedman stated that the Spatial City (Ville spatiale) is not a frozen form, but rather, in his drawings and models, is an instant image, which extends from a long and indeterminate process. I am impressed by his discovery of the enormous potentiality of presenting the idea of Spatial City through video. Thus, the final part of my project will be presented in the form of a video, using this means as a form of our physical existence. A montage of the virtual model and the video representing reality will create what Deleuze calls crystal-image, that is, the indivisible unity of the virtual image and the actual image.

The video explaining the project is divided in two parts. The first section shows the evolution of an idea toward an in situ project (footage along Ponte della Libertà), where the video is slowed down, thus images are captured in slow motion.

framing study

If imagination is something unperceived by the human eye, something that exists solely in our minds, a reproduction in slow motion shows us things that are hidden. The same thing occurs while looking at the visual spectrum in which our eyes are limited between infrared and ultraviolet. According to Ammar Eloueini, who considers this space as a sort of virtual space - a kind of prosthesis - which once applied may permit us to see what was previously unperceived. By seeing images again in slow motion, where one second can be extended over ten or fifteen minutes, the missing frames (skipped by the human eye) may also be considered as virtual spaces. In the second part of video, two different types of framing - one panoramic and another static – show the object inserted into the real situation, accompanied with the actual background sound and surroundings. Thus, hypothetically, utopia may take form and come to life.

Wonderland

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Type Design course held by professor Leonardo Sonnoli at IUAV university 2006 / typographic interpretation of Alice in Wonderland

wonderland specimen

wonderland regular
wonderland half/wide

variations of letters W/D

©
Arsenić Jelena
Kufner Petar
Zanotti Gloria

booklet

Unfindable Objects

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:21:00 +0000

Inspired by Catalogue d’Objets Introuvables, also known as Catalogue of Unfindable Objects made by Jacques Carelman in 1969, which features some strange designs

Alphabet

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:40:00 +0000

Exercises in Style

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:57:00 +0000

Graphic interpretation of Exercises in Style, written by Raymond Queneau in 1947, where he tells the same story in 99 different ways.

"Il Cinema di Campagna"

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:32:00 +0000

site

day/night effect

concept

model sc 1:20

Art Gallery

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:30:00 +0000

click on image for more information

Revitalization of the Sea Front

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:55:00 +0000

The competition for ideas within the revitalization of the sea front of Poreč, Croatia, 2006 / project selected by the jury / idea for reorganization of green areas

The city of Porec is an ancient city where the strong roman axis are present; cardo and decumanum. It’s also called a city of mosaic, so the main concept is mosaic that later was convert into the pixel.
The cardo and decumanum are the guides for the position of pixels.

Pixels are used as modules to organise the area; green areas, pedestrian areas.
They are different sizes and interactive. They are also used as horizontal signals, so they can lead you to some monuments or to squares.

Riqualificazione Paesaggistica

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:48:00 +0000

Tema centrale del progetto è la riqualificazione paesaggistica di un bordo della laguna veneziana. "Lavorare sui bordi", sui confini, sui margini intesi come luoghi di una potenzialità inespressa o espressa per frammenti.
concept

area of interest

section

view

view

Info Box

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Small info point situated on S. Erasmo island near Venice, Italy

sketch

model view

site details

plans

3D rendering

Miabi

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:32:00 +0000

corporate identity project “miabi“ online fashion brand & store

corporate identity manual

Plakat

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:05:00 +0000

42. Zagrebački salon

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:24:00 +0000

competition project / a new visual identity for 42."Zagrebački salon" of visual arts

material cooming soon

NJOA

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:58:00 +0000

nomadic journey of arts / corporate identity project for "olympic" art events

Where P Meets K

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:47:00 +0000

personal visual identity / Petar Kufner

wher P meets K

logo construction

positive / negative logo

Apartment House

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:30:00 +0000

sketch

site plan

facade study

types of floor plans

ground floor

typology

Consuming Sex

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:35:00 +0000

Marghera

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:33:00 +0000

marghera / bw / 2005

marghera same spot / color / 2007

A House on the Lido Island

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:27:00 +0000

my first student project: a small house situated in Venetian Lagoon on the Lido island near Venice

concept

construction view

exterior model view

interior model view

plan / section

Exit

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:09:00 +0000