Archinet conducted an interview with Spacekraftlab, an interesting architecture firm with fascinating ideas around the intersection of physical and electronic space.

Paul Petrunia:
What does sonic intervention mean and how does sound influence the way you are working?

Spacekraftlab:
Sonic intervention is a larger topic we have been developing on for a while. It is a theoretical investigation in sound as a three dimensional tool. We first had this idea when we visited the ?cite sonar? exhibition in Paris which dealt with the idea of an acoustic identity of a city. We started to collaborate with a programmer and developed a specialized software that analyzes different characteristics of a sound and translates this analysis into a three dimensional medium. Some of these ideas were implemented for the Museums Quartier Project where we used the sonogram of a voice recording as a form generator and conceptual framework for the project.

This sounds a lot like the Instant City installation, which also investigates the relationship between the physical shape of a city, albeit on a much smaller scale, and sound. And sound, particularly the sound of the city, is just encoded information, like the sound of traffic informing you about a peak hour for example.

Paul Petrunia:
Many of your projects are museums spaces. What makes a museum space an interesting program for you ? Has there been a change in the way we perceive art?

Spacekraftlab:
The turning point really is the way in which we consume information today versus lets say 20 years ago. That has very much changed our perception and reception of many things including art. The contemporary museum can no longer only be an exhibition space by itself, but needs to feed the growing appetite for information if it wants to be able to compete with the information highways surrounding it. A contemporary museum as we envision it is an information hybrid moving beyond the sole functionality of being a representative exhibition shelter that makes it an interesting program for us.

With the internet already shaping the way we communicate, shaping our relationships, can we expect to see it shaping our physical surroundings too? Buildings shaped by the kind of information the store? Cities shaped by the way information flows through it?