© Amelyn Ng 2024
PARQPAT: PARQUET TRANSFORMATIONS
installation, representation
YEAR:
2024
TYPE:
Contribution to a small site-specific exhibition curated around the parquet floor of a historic Boston townhome.
INFO:
Parquet Patterns (PARQPAT) employs the format of typical CAD hatch patterns (PAT) to play with variations in parametric parquet geometry.
Parquetry is both a material technique and a mathamatical preoccupation. Having encountered Parakeet 3D, a “parquet deformation” tool for Grasshopper, this speculative work studies flooring pattern transformations across the floor of an existing apartment whose pieces are currently falling out or breaking apart. Might we deform/transform our way between patterns in a patchy parquet repair future?
Rugs and parquet have mutually influenced each other throughout history, by either deliberately emphasizing, or concealing, floor patterns and their labor. This week-long charette resulted in a rapid prototype installation of a rug featuring a 1:1 parquet deformation, to be overlaid over the existing parquet layout of the exhibition site as a new tile.
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2024
TYPE:
Contribution to a small site-specific exhibition curated around the parquet floor of a historic Boston townhome.
INFO:
Parquet Patterns (PARQPAT) employs the format of typical CAD hatch patterns (PAT) to play with variations in parametric parquet geometry.
Parquetry is both a material technique and a mathamatical preoccupation. Having encountered Parakeet 3D, a “parquet deformation” tool for Grasshopper, this speculative work studies flooring pattern transformations across the floor of an existing apartment whose pieces are currently falling out or breaking apart. Might we deform/transform our way between patterns in a patchy parquet repair future?
Rugs and parquet have mutually influenced each other throughout history, by either deliberately emphasizing, or concealing, floor patterns and their labor. This week-long charette resulted in a rapid prototype installation of a rug featuring a 1:1 parquet deformation, to be overlaid over the existing parquet layout of the exhibition site as a new tile.
