ARCH1142 Montage It - Task 1

Inspirations:

Mount Tindaya by Eduardo Chilida

Through this massive sculpture by Eduardo Chilida, he wants to convey the idea of removing space to order to create space. He did this by actually carving out a portion of rock from the Mount Tindaya and let the light shoots into through the openings on top and thus forming a space inside defined by light itself. Besides, Eduardo also wants to play around with negative and positive space, the negative space being the space that's was being cut out(subtracted equals negative) from the mountain (positive space), however as soon the space is being subtracted, it becomes a positive space, a space that can be use by people, a space that gets light, it has gained a positive value!

artworks by Gordon Matta-Clark

In Gordon Matta-Clark's work however, portrays a different message but through the same method, destroying things to create new things! The act of these destruction was mainly to express dissatisfaction and also testifying the failed social and architectural policies of 1970s New York. Somehow, what he destroyed actually create a new form of spatial experience. Internal parts of buildings are no longer remain hidden from the beholders, no more deception of space and the true colour of a building is revealed like how he wanted to reveal the truth of a deteriorating society.



The most famous work by him, "Splitting", evokes the message of the disintegration of the American family.



After considering the ideas from these 2 artists, I took the common approach by them which is the idea of destroying a space to create a space into designing my concept model. I was wondering what if I were to hammered out part of a wall, what will happen? Do I get a damaged wall or do I obtain a space in between the wall? The answer is latter.


Cutting through the wall defining space in between them.






Playing around with idea of a full space(stair wall) and hollow space(observation deck).


When the skin of wall is remove, it reveals the steelworks(represented by wire) inside the masonry. The metal works thus become balustrade and prevent people from falling over. What was being destroyed, reveals a potential new usage.





Photo montage:

The site is sets in the area around of Railway Square in Sydney. I choose this site to cohere with the idea of splitting by Gordon, but in a different way. This area has a lot of intersection between the streets, cars and pedestrians came from different streets and arrived at this same intersection before splitting up each to their own destination. Through this, I wanted to bring out the message of although we came from different places, going for different aims, we are chasing the same thing, our dream.


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