[re]establishing forgotten sites
EXPLORING ADAPTATIONS & CONNECTIONS
These line drawings highlight points of conjunction between earlier buildings and more recent additions. There's something beautiful in the disparity and adaptations. Two buildings become connected by a new intervention, following the lines of the existing buildings. Architecture of great detail sits next to a simpler, more geometric design. Functional adaptations have been made, allowing for the building to be current to the society of today's needs.
Creating unexpected connections between various building materials and understanding the process in which they become joined through a series of technical drawings. Pairing of materials was decided by an online random number generator.
Does connection and configuration impact how we understand and perceive an object?
Connnecting found objects: egg holder, candelabra and vase.
Connnecting found objects: miniature salt & pepper shakers, bud vase and bangles.
Using found objects from the op shop, I created small sculptures by arranging and connecting the pieces in a new way. There's a sense of mystery as where these pieces came from originally is unknown, yet there is a speculation of devaluing as the pieces were donated and assumably unwanted. They become somewhat unidentifiable as individual objects in their new configuration.
“Modern materials and new techniques are at hand: light metal structures; curved, laminated wooden arches: panels of different textures, colours, and sizes; light elements like ceilings which can be suspended from big trusses covering practically unlimited spans. Mobile elements can constantly vary the aspect of the buildings. These mobile elements, changing positions and casting different shadows when acted upon by wind or machinery, can be the source of new architectural effects.”
J. L. Sert, F. Léger, S. Giedion (1943)
Nine Points on Monumentality
Combining the interiors of the Palace of St. Emmeram, Germany and the Enrico Fermi School, Italy
Combining the interiors of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the World Trade Centre Transport Harbour, New York
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Combining the interiors of the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland and the Conrad, Washington D.C.
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New interior scenarios created through the fusion of interiors from opposing periods of time. Images were married together through concepts (ie colour, grandeur, symmetry, form). These hybrid interiors become somewhat dream-like, as one space sits within the other in an unexpected union.
Could adaptive reuse be the happy medium between appreciation of the historical and todays needs?