Inkijk # 20: BLOBS

The presentation of the Blob designs that took place in the Inkijk in 2003 represented a product of the collaboration between SKOR and the Technical University (TU) of Eindhoven. This was one of the projects that SKOR initiated in order to make joint ventures possible between artists and scientists working in the field of higher education.

Blobs signifies ‘Binary Large Objects’, digitally-designed shapes of flowing architecture. Together with Professor Beunkers and students of the faculty of Aviation and Space Travel at the Technical University of Delft, Eindhoven-based Arno Pronk developed the Blowing Structure Method. The latter is a technical method that claims to ensure an optimum realization of the so-called Blobs architecture.

Following this development, the TU Eindhoven and SKOR invited Jurgen Bey, Ronald Cornelissen and Gabriel Lester to conduct a workshop in which they would design a Blob with the university’s students. The goal of this was to create a functional pavilion on the university’s campus that could be used for a range of art projects.
On 10 June 2003 the three designs were discussed by a jury that, on the basis of conceptual and architectonic criteria, chose Jurgen Bey’s design as the winner. Beys design was opened on 18 February 2005.