VIDRIERA HIPERCÚBICA DESPLEGABLE. | UNIVERSITÄT SIEGEN (GERMANY)/ETSAE (SPAIN). | 2020 - 2022 | EXHIBITION: GLASSTEC 2022. DUSSELDORF

The research project focuses on the reconstruction of the artifact known as the "Vidriera Hipercúbica Desplegable" (Hypercubic Folding Stained Glass Window), designed by the architect Emilio Pérez Piñero in 1971. It is a kinetic spatial enclosure between the former stage and the stalls of the former Figueras theater, now converted into the Dalí Theatre-Museum. The concept is based on the design by the Spanish architect Emilio Pérez Piñero for Salvador Dalí in 1971. In an iterative process of teaching and research, the construction principles of the "Hypercubic Glass" are adapted to current production techniques and transformed into reality. For this purpose, students of the Master of Architecture at the University of Siegen develop several models of the artifact on the basis of two of the architect's patents and complementary photo-documentary information. In a further research work carried out by the scientific staff of the Tragkonstruktion Chair and staff of the ETSAE (Cartagena), working models are analyzed and the construction is optimized in terms of material, dimension and connection. The result of two years of development is a prototype presented at the "Glasstec 2022" trade fair in Düsseldorf.