MASH UP

The first thing Callum Morton says is, ‘I’m not an architect.’ Ours is a time when art looks like architecture, and architecture looks quite like art. I like to engage in a whole lot of different worlds.’ Everyone looks at boundaries as a division. ‘I’m not just interested in art, although of course I’m an artist. But I am equally as interested – and always have been – in architecture, literature, theatre certainly, and film, and a whole host of other things. “I tend to think of it as designing around someone else. I’m making it for other people. When you make art, you basically can do whatever you want. He sometimes treats buildings too much as artworks – as things to be looked at and walked around, that stand or fall by their inherent conceptual strength – rather than as things of use; a means of blurring our consciousness, a new opiate of the people supplied by corporations and governments as they use "iconic" artworks and buildings to sell cities and property to investors. You have to have faith in the magic. You cannot find a reason for everything you make, but that doesn’t make it less thoughtful. It’s a contradiction. Minimalism" has turned from an artistic movement to an architectural style to an interior design option. I see myself existing on the boundary line, I’m always trying to find a balance between these opposing forces.” We’re using this notion of illusion somewhere between science and art, art and architecture, public and private, east and west. All pretence that the cultural is separate from the economic is finished. The mystery of creativity.

Sources

Article about architect/artist Maya Lin’s work, life and biography:  

http://www.matilijapress.com/articles/mayalin.htm

Article about Hal Foster’s book The Art- Architecture Complex :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/16/art-architecture-complex-foster-review

Article on Callum Morton’s design for set of play Other Desert Cities : http://www.insidemtc.com/2013/02/feature-callum-morton.html

FINAL SUBMISSION EXP 2

ELECTROLIQUID AGGREGATION - On the electronic surface of the public realm past and present are mediated. Inspired by past conceptualisations but with the possibility for reinvention or the creation of something new.

ARCHIGRAM monument: The public realm is an electronic surface enclosing the globe

This image highlights the archigram monument that floats off the rocky cliff edge over the rest of the structure. It is an almost opaque surface that provides a platform for students to look out from. The square structure is like a window down on the Dubbeldam monument below which is a re-adapted old building. This  link between past and present that is seen and felt by students in the monument  draws past, present and future together resulting in a new concept of time that is not linear but all encompassing. It is this idea that I have tried to integrate in order to inspire the students in their design endeavours.

Cage platform that extends from the stair tower (centre) and links the archigram monument (above) and the Wink Dubbeldam monument (below)

WINKA DUBBELDAM monument : adaptive reuse instigating a mediation between past and present to be inspired by and reinvent historic conceptualisations to further existing knowledge

The Winka Dubbeldam monument is an old decayed building belonging to a previous industrial site that stood on this land.  Eroded and lying dormant, the monument I have designed revives the spirit of the old site, whilst also connecting it to times beyond. The steel-cage platform runs through two voids cut out of the old building and provide a safe and interesting walkway/meeting place for students to explore.

The meeting place extends below directly onto the ruins of the old industrial site, no longer in tact. This platform  features seating around a number of voids that look down onto the broken fences and decayed building remnants as well as the rocks and water.The platform rejuvenates the dormant life of the old site and is in its new form, linked to the monuments above, an inspiring place to be.

The stair tower is a means of accessing the lower monument, other than across the rough terrain. It is a square spiral staircase that is surrounded by a cage-like structure to which I have applied a dark steel-looking texture. This is the connection between the old and the new, in two locations, half-way down and at the bottom of the stairs, the cage opens out and becomes the floor of a meeting platform for architecture students. It then proceeds to be a platform through the old adapted monument below. 

LINK to 3d warehouse model :

 http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b889e6fc67c861d2691c5860ec928771

LINK to cryengine levels folder: https://www.dropbox.com/home/CRYENGINE%20LEVELS%20FOLDER%20ARCH%201101

SKETCHUP MODEL WITH LIGHT, MEDIUM AND DARK TEXTURE

 

 

 

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medium

 

dark

 

I chose these textures because I think they best relate to the original concepts of electronic surface and adaptive reuse. The dots for me are futuristic and recall data, a future where structures will no longer be only physical but digital and virtual, our surfaces will be transformed into opaque realms of data and different ways of experiencing spaces. For adaptive reuse I chose a brick-like texture that appears decayed. This is  contrasted with a stong dark texture that resembles a sturdy steel structure. I associate it with both the industrial past but also the possibility for modern experimental/ futuristic design and I like how this is the texture that connects the past structure (adaptive reuse-below) and the future structure (electronic surface-above). The textures therefore link back to my electroiquid aggregation as they reinforce the idea of mediation of past and present in this meeting space.

 

36 TEXTURES FROM LIGHT TO DARK