A vaulted cellar with four transverse arches and five bays beneath a Gründerzeit house in Neulerchenfeld: workroom, archive, experimental setup and XR SPACE. Sculpture, scan, model and performance are made here; on 29 Dec 2020 the room itself became a scan.
The empty room as a precise twin · box and lid · 25 works on the spiral
The vaulted cellar as a box that opens: the lid lifts, the room is measured, lit, inhabited – and closes again. It is based on a digital twin of the empty room, the vault modelled from the real scan (RMS 1.5 cm). The same room shell exists as a 1:50 3D print that slots together.
Interior 10.10 × 4.99 m · four transverse arches (axes 2.08 / 2.14 / 2.12 m) · springing 2.25 m · arch crown 2.83 m · vault crown 3.15 m · five cellar windows south, one north · arched doorway 1.09 × 2.56 m. The southern orientation of the window wall is assumed and adjustable in the lab.
Real scan, furnishings, METABODY figures and hyperobjects as a separate model, congruent with the empty twin and overlayable in the lab. Deviation scan hull to twin: median 2.6 cm, 92 % below 10 cm.
The empty room without objects – lime plaster, rubble-stone base, screed, tubes, edge lines, dimension chains, address and north arrow – and the animated scene “RAUM_ZEIT_KAPSEL_190s” with work spiral, black hole and room shell.
The film’s timeline in real time: play, jump to chapters, free view, inventory on and off, sound.
Simulation lab modelled on bih_modell: NOAA sun position for Vienna with real shadows through the five cellar windows, tubes 2200–6500 K, tape measure, plan and section, 1:50 model. Live camera and microphone, files by drag & drop, projection, screen, speaker, spotlight, text, GLB. Output: still, WebM, GLB, JSON, USDZ 1:50, WebXR.
The length of the room is the time axis: west 1998 → east 2026. 25 works lie as time capsules in the vault. Near the horizon proper time runs slower – works count more there; touch the horizon and you fall back to 1998. At the end: rank, “My capsule” as GLB, USDZ 1:50 and log.
The room shell divided at 1.62 m room height: box 230 × 38.4 × 197.1 mm, lid 230 × 41.6 × 197.1 mm, wall 6 mm, tongue-and-groove 5 mm with 0.3 mm play, both parts closed (manifold). PLA or PETG, 0.2 mm.
A spiral runs through the vault, one work per year: from THE BODYBOX via MOVING GALLERY, EUTOPIA, PARSIFAL ENTFERNUNG, GRANAT, VIRUS ORFEUS, DIE ANDERE SEITE, RAUM 11, GAMMARAY, XR SPACE · BASEMENT and [XR] NOE to LOK1000, Lucid Dreams and Der schmutzige Blick.