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D-Tower
Doetinchem, The Netherlands

The Tower is a coherent hybrid of different media where architecture is part of a larger interactive system of relationships.

Image courtesy NOX
Happy

The D-Tower is a project where the intensive (feelings, qualia) and the extensive (space, quantities) start exchanging roles, where human action, color, money, value, feelings all become networked entities.

The D-tower consists of three parts: a website (accessible to everybody), a questionnaire (accessible to a hundred different people each year that have a special password) and a Tower. All three parts are interactively related to each other.

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Fear

The building is a 12 meter high structure where standard and non-standard geometry's make up a complex surface made of epoxy formed by a computer generated molding technique (CNC milled styrofoam). This surface is very similar to a gothic vault structure, where columns and surface share the same continuum.
The building is directly connected to the website in two different ways.

1. The website is a visualization of the responses of the 45,000 inhabitants of Doetinchem to a questionnaire, written by the Rotterdam based artist Q.S. Serafijn, which deals with daily emotions like Hate, Love, Happiness and Fear.
Every month the questions become more precise, and all the answers are graphed in different "Emotion Landscapes" made visible on the website to show how this city is dealing with its emotions.
2. The four emotions are represented by four colors: Green, Red, Blue and Yellow, which are also the colors of the lamps illuminating the building.

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Love

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Hate

In the capsule placed underneath the Tower inhabitants of Doetinchem can also place their own personal messages on the "Landscapes".
To connect even further the Tower will also send prewritten love letters and flowers from "love addresses" to "hate addresses", and at the end of each year the Tower presents a prize of 10.000 euros to the address with the highest emotions.

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Stress Analysis

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Project start: 1998
Construction start: 2003.

NOX Team:
Lars Spuybroek
Pitupong Chaowakul
Chris Seung-woo Yoo
Norbert Palz

Artist:
Q.S Serafijn

V2_Lab:
Simon de Bakker
Artem Baguinski

January 20, 2003

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		NOX D-Tower Doetinchem, The Netherlands The Tower is a coherent hybrid of different media where architecture is part of a larger interactive system of relationships. Image courtesy NOX Happy The D-Tower is a project where the intensive (feelings, qualia) and the extensive (space, quantities) start exchanging roles, where human action, color, money, value, feelings all become networked entities. The D-tower consists of three parts: a website (accessible to everybody), a questionnaire (accessible to a hundred different people each year that have a special password) and a Tower. All three parts are interactively related to each other. Image courtesy NOX Fear The building is a 12 meter high structure where standard and non-standard geometry's make up a complex surface made of epoxy formed by a computer generated molding technique (CNC milled styrofoam). This surface is very similar to a gothic vault structure, where columns and surface share the same continuum. The building is directly connected to the website in two different ways. 1. The website is a visualization of the responses of the 45,000 inhabitants of Doetinchem to a questionnaire, written by the Rotterdam based artist Q.S. Serafijn, which deals with daily emotions like Hate, Love, Happiness and Fear. Every month the questions become more precise, and all the answers are graphed in different "Emotion Landscapes" made visible on the website to show how this city is dealing with its emotions. 2. The four emotions are represented by four colors: Green, Red, Blue and Yellow, which are also the colors of the lamps illuminating the building. Image courtesy NOX Love Image courtesy NOX Hate In the capsule placed underneath the Tower inhabitants of Doetinchem can also place their own personal messages on the "Landscapes". To connect even further the Tower will also send prewritten love letters and flowers from "love addresses" to "hate addresses", and at the end of each year the Tower presents a prize of 10.000 euros to the address with the highest emotions. Image courtesy NOX Stress Analysis Image courtesy NOX Project start: 1998 Construction start: 2003. NOX Team: Lars Spuybroek Pitupong Chaowakul Chris Seung-woo Yoo Norbert Palz Artist: Q.S Serafijn V2_Lab: Simon de Bakker Artem Baguinski January 20, 2003 NOX arcspace features