SONIC MAZE迷宫丨荷兰丨mesure studio,ultimo intimo

© Mesure Studio + ultimo intimo

介绍

Introduction

在一个经历分裂、数字孤立、恐惧与冲突的欧洲，SONIC MAZE应法国建筑师mesure studio与德国设计师ultimo intimo的合作诞生。这座12×12米的结构是一个原创定制设计，由两个独立的充气体组成。在2025年荷兰设计周上，它在数分钟内便在展览的中央广场上完成了整个形态的呈现。该项目被荷兰设计基金会选为“重大项目”，并作为迎接预期将在九天展会期间到访的35万观众的入门门槛。SONIC MAZE是一种拒绝分类的激进存在，它挑战着设计、艺术、音乐和建筑之间的边界——邀请观众共同构想未来，重新思考我们为自己设定的限制。

In a Europe navigating fragmentation, digital isolation, fear, and conflict, SONIC MAZE emerged from the collaboration between French architect mesure studio and German designer ultimo intimo. Their 12 × 12-meter structure is an original, custom design composed of two independent inflated bodies. At Dutch Design Week 2025, it rose to its full shape within minutes on the festival’s central plaza. Selected as Grand Project by the Dutch Design Foundation, the installation was conceived as an introductory threshold welcoming the 350,000 visitors expected over the nine days of the fair. A radical presence that resists categorization, SONIC MAZE challenges the boundaries between design, art, music, and architecture – inviting visitors to collectively imagine the future and to reconsider the limits we place upon ourselves.

▼项目鸟瞰，Aerial view of the project © Charlotte Kammerer

体验

Experience

面对一片巨大的黑色存在，观众被吸引进入他们设计周体验的意外开端。进入这一空间需要用身体推动柔软的倾斜墙壁——这是一道身体的门槛。内部，浓雾时而改变感官的焦点，将视线从眼前转移，而沉浸式的声音则赋予了空间生命感，令这座结构像是一个活生生的有机体。在其核心，项目探讨并挑战“极限”这一概念。根据人的位置，同一表面可能呈现出难以逾越的陡峭，或相反，成为可以居住的地形——可以坐下、攀爬、玩耍或探索。观众被鼓励放下先入为主的假设，重新定义自己与空间之间的边界。每当身体接触、倚靠或躺下时，振动便通过类似膜的墙壁传播开来。

▼模型，Model © Charlotte Kammerer

Confronted with a monumental black presence, visitors were drawn into an unexpected start to their Design Week experience. Entering required physically pushing through soft, inclined walls – a bodily threshold. Inside, dense fog periodically shifted the senses away from sight, while immersive sounds animated the interior, giving the structure the presence of a living organism. At its core, the project explores and challenges the notion of limits. Depending on one’s position, the same surface might appear impossibly steep and impassable, or conversely, as a terrain to inhabit – to sit on, climb, play with, or explore. Visitors were encouraged to drop assumptions and renegotiate the boundaries between themselves and the space. Vibrations travelled through the membrane-like walls wherever bodies touched, leaned, or lay against them.

▼项目俯瞰，Top view © Charlotte Kammerer

▼装置外景，Exterior of the installation © Charlotte Kammerer

为了创造一个与众不同的空间，邀请人们进行运动和感官漂流，法国电子音乐制作人Drux创作了一系列空间音景，每一段音景都在无尽的变化中展开。灵感来自白噪声、嗡鸣声和空气压力的变化，这一交响式的音景创作随着时间、位置和偶然性的变化不断演化，确保每次的体验都独一无二，且富有短暂的瞬间感。

To create a world apart that invited movement and perceptual drift, French electronic music producer Drux composed a series of spatial soundscapes, each unfolding in infinite variations. Inspired by white noises, drones, and shifting air pressures, the symphonic composition evolved continuously in response to time, position, and chance, ensuring each visit felt unique and ephemeral.

▼俯瞰坐在上面的游客，Looking down at the visitors seated above © Charlotte Kammerer

展望

Outlook

SONIC MAZE展示了开放式设计的力量：一座可以变成音乐会场地、节庆舞台、游乐场、公共雕塑、冥想空间或画廊装置的结构——具体形式取决于进入的人及他们如何选择与之互动。它的多功能性展示了观众如何直觉地主导那些邀请而非指令性的空间。

The SONIC MAZE revealed the power of open-ended design: a structure that can become a concert venue, festival stage, playground, public sculpture, meditative space, or gallery installation – depending on who enters and how they choose to engage. Its versatility demonstrated how audiences intuitively take ownership of spaces that invite rather than instruct.

▼体验装置的游客，Visitors experiencing the installation © Charlotte Kammerer

▼攀爬的儿童，Children climbing © Max Kneefel

展望未来，mesure studio和ultimo intimo寻找那些对实验、公共参与和沉浸式叙事有浓厚兴趣的合作伙伴——这些合作伙伴来自文化、技术、建筑、音乐、时尚和公共领域。最终，SONIC MAZE提出了当代设计中的一个核心问题：当创造力不再受类别限制时，会涌现出哪些可能性？当我们允许空间——以及居住其中的人——重新定义设计的可能性时，设计会呈现怎样的面貌？

Looking ahead, mesure studio and ultimo intimo seek collaborators who share an appetite for experimentation, public engagement, and immersive storytelling – across culture, technology, architecture, music, fashion, and the public realm. Ultimately, the SONIC MAZE leaves a question at the heart of contemporary design: What possibilities emerge when creativity is freed from categories, and when we allow spaces – and the people who inhabit them – to redefine what design can be?

▼雨后的装置，After the rain © Max Kneefel

▼装置细节，Installation detail © Charlotte MSD

Event: DUTCH DESIGN WEEK

Location: Ketelhuisplein – Eindhoven NL

Dates: 18th – 26th of October 2025

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Architect: mesure studio (Raphaël Boursier Desvignes) – Paris

Designer: ultimo intimo (Charlotte Kammerer) – Berlin

Sound designer: Vincent Drux – Paris