NEXUS

2017

NCR WORLD HEADQUARTERS
Atlanta, GA USA

8,012 hollow, 4″ diameter, stainless steel spheres,
925 1⁄16″ stainless steel, custom hardware, 28 aluminum plate panels

60′ × 34′ × 20′

Client: NCR
Art Consultant: Anne Tracht, CONSULTART
Client Project Management: Jason Hoeft, JLL
Construction: Phillip Crook, Jake Swindal, Erik Kandler, HITT

Architects: Gensler
Structural Engineers: Jim Case, Nathan Blong, Uzun+Case
Plate Fabrication: Madera Arts
Photographer: Tom Meyer

noun (pl) nexus
1. a means of connection between members of a group or things in a series; link; bond;
2. a connected group or series

Referencing collective behavior and spatial intelligence as a major source of inspiration and research, algorithmic patterns represent interactions between individuals, leading to the emergence of “intelligent” global behavior.

How we Connect, Interact, and Transact individually and collectively impacts all aspects of our daily lives from local to global scales. These dynamic relationships intertwine our virtual and physical social systems into a multi-layered network essential to our everyday.

NCR’s committed role as the leader of transaction technologies impacts our daily connections through dedicated innovation enabling a local interaction to have global impact.

NEXUS is the iconic emblem of this mission and history of innovation while offering a future vision of global connectivity.

Reflecting upon the research and development around Swarm Intelligence, the form responds to the algorithmic pathways developed through collective behaviors and spatialized intelligence; exemplifying the potentialities this presents to routing protocol technologies and communication network optimization.

NEXUS uniquely responds to the lobby atrium spatial dynamics to reveal a fluid series of interactions for a mobile audience; illuminating themselves at different proximities and paces. The artwork incorporates these dynamics through data-driven spatial relationships to anchor the viewers’ experience from multiple levels throughout the building, as well as several multi-block street views from adjacent approaches.

Natural light filters through the reflections of the stainless steel spheres, where interactions between light and form respond to the transition of time and space, utilizing the mirrored surfaces to pull the exterior reflections into the interior atrium.

Below is a short insight into the process of creating Nexus.