The installation/object MEASURE LINE is made out of industrial steel, forged and welded as necessary. The steel is left without further finishes.

A series of connected vertical steel rods is put in tension between the floor and the ceiling of the room. From the connecting joints horizontal flat steel bars connects to the entrance wall of the room. Parallel to the entrance wall a wooden gallery is inscribed in the otherwise cubic room. The horizontal steel bars are put into place that they are intruding the space of the gallery zone, but they are not interfering with the actual structure of the gallery.

The installation/object MEASURE LINE explores intuition in understanding of space and material. The horizontal rhythm that the installation creates creates an intuitive understanding of the height of the space. The 2.26 meter height difference refer directly to Le Corbusiers modulor in which he describes 2.26 meter as man’s height with his hand stretched up. With his attempt to re-establish a proportion system, Le Corbusier tried to re-humanize the understanding of modern architecture, which in the 1950s become more and more driven by rationality and efficiency. MEASURE LINE allows to create an intuitive understanding of the space, its third dimension and the way it is interlocked through its gallery. As installation MEASURE LINE is an abstract, rational and descriptive tool that operates only in 2 dimensions. As object MEASURE LINE acts in its physical presence by revealing its materiality; the horizontal bars bend slightly over their span, the steel rods show forging marks, the surface of the steels shows cracks of cooling and heating and thin layers of rust become sometimes apparent.