Just as a hyper-cube has ever changing facets, hMa aspires to have a ‘hyper-practice’. Even with its infinite folding and unfolding - the hyper-cube is a unique and singular object. Even as it incorporates, time and infinite possibilities of form and information, the hyper-cube retains its ability to be recognized.
hMa has a similar image of their practice which they see as a unique figure intellectually joined to a hyper-spherical object. As a ‘hyper-sphere’ – hMa is a generative practice that grows, stretches, and morphs over time, without losing its original form. Idea diagrams for hMa's most recent project, 'Infinity Chapel', are presented below, relating Infinity Chapel to the shape of an infinity sign, as well as the three-dmensional shape of a hyper-cube. Infinity Chapel is designed as a minimalist chapel with the form of a perfect cube, deformed, through time, by light. This deformation process pushes Infinity Chapel into the form of a hyper-cube.
hypercube diagram
If we could, hMa would leave the planet with our own architectural version of John Cage’s musical composition, Organ² / ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) – currently being played over 639 years by its interpreters in Germany. Cage’s piece is an all-encompassing time-piece that touches the earth lightly. Using a similar approach to our architecture, hMa hopes to achieve a similarly powerful impact, using minimal means.
Infinity Chapel represents hMa's overall concept of buildings that move and transform, over time. The Chapel is dynamic in form and self-sustaining.
Infinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects
hMa sees their practice as a sustainable approach to creating buildings and places of beauty. John Cage’s engagement with the world made an impact on people’s lives through works that were often silent, but powerful. hMa strives to impact human life through a similar relationship between art and beauty by building projects that respect the environment and occupy the planet with minimal impact.
To see hMa’s version of an ‘infinite unfolding over time’, visit our website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com. Pass through the site’s main portals by hitting: ‘hMa blog’; ‘Cultural Conversations’; and ‘hMa Research’. These three portals keep hMa engaged in the world in a way that changes, in reaction to time, just as you would expect a hyper-practice should.
left: John Cage; right: the bellows for the custom-made organ currently playing Cage's "ASLSP" in a performance in Halberstadt Germany scheduled to take 639 years to complete
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