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'The Path' Installation, Hannover

Yerce Architecture & ZAAS

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Client
Stefany Home and Living
Floor area
20.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

‘The Path' is an installation designed for a carpet manufacturing company in one of the world’s largest trade fairs for floor coverings in Hannover, Germany. It was commissioned to be placed inside a twenty squaremeter box, in a special zone set apart from the rest of the fair where firms express themselves in creative ways.

The installation is primarily composed of two sixty meter long, brightly coloured metal tracks in the form of half round pipes that are hung from the ceiling and constructed in an intertwining manner. The visitors, by selecting a ball in the color of their choice from the ball holders positioned at the sides and rolling it in the tracks at any point, become the participants of an interactive game. The balls travel through the curvy route of the slightly inclined track of pipes until they reach the base of the installation, which is an independent platform covered with six centimeter diameter holes the balls roll into. When all the holes on the floor of the installation have a ball placed in them in a magically probabilistic way, an abstract rug is created. This image of a rug is the product of a collaborative process based on arbitrary, individual choices which, make the process as interesting as the end result. This interactive game is repeatable once all the holes have been filled in and the end product of each completed game is naturally unique.