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.
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