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These illustrations are proposals for a large re-branding project commissioned by Scholz and Friends Stockholm.
The project would include the creation of over 30 crests and this was a proposed test shield.
Unfortunately the pitch didn't swing my way but im uber jealous of the illustrator that got it as it would have been a wonderful project to work on!
I'm working on the design proposal following the jury responses and reactions the other day. The text and ideas that that I presented for the jury are outlined below:
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THE RECEPTACLE
A temporary architectural urban intervention
THE INTEREST
Architecture and buildings make up solid, slow moving urban landscapes. Buildings are designed to last 30 years, 50 years, 200 years. There is solidity, a permanency in the existence of architecture and the built environment. Cities do not change overnight, they evolve over time. Often, this change is in-perceptible to the user or inhabitant of the city. It is a part of the subconscious.
My project will investigate this relationship between architecture, consciousness and memory. The investigation will have a local relevance, focussing on the city of Perth, and our urban inhabitation of it.
THE IDEA OF TEMPORARY
The evolution and change in urban environment is recorded as a memory, a recollection of time passed. This memory is stored in photographs, moving images, stories, and, the mind.
Reflecting upon this, it becomes apparent that cities themselves also become repositories of memory. As the buildings and urban form experience time, they also record it. Paint jobs, renovations, additions, subtractions and demolitions all mark moments of history within our urban environment. Buildings and urban space become markers for personal and collective memory as the inhabitants of the city occupy them.
My interest is to see what happens when the life-cycle of a building or a piece of architecture is shortened. Instead of being built to last 30 years, what happens if a piece of architecture is built to last 30 hours?
Instead of being considered “permanent”, what happens when architecture is thought of as “temporary”? Can we consider the outcomes to be architecture?
CRITIQUE AND TIME
How does the critic judge the success of a building?
To follow the zeitgeist, architecture needs function. It needs a purpose. Shelter, enclosure, reason, inhabitation. As such, temporary architecture also needs function.
This project will assume that a temporary building be judged with the same methodology as a “permanent” building. The temporary building will be subjected to critique of its functional aims, historical, social, ethical and site specific contextual relevance, aesthetic qualities and detail, and the level of engagement it has with its inhabitants.
These are all methodologies and techniques for criticism that we know and understand as practitioners in the field of architecture. However, the temporary building is subject to another element of judgement. This element is its relationship to time, its temporal qualities.
So, I am interested in exploring the temporal qualities of architecture.
Does a temporary building question the relationship between inhabitant of urban space and their environment? Is the fact that the building exists for a short period of time a catalyst to spark the consciousness towards inhabitation of a built environment?
Does a temporary building actually awaken the city dweller, heightening their sense of awareness of the environment in which they live? Its temporal existence may cause the user of the city to step back, look at the city, and, perhaps, consider their relationship to it. The fleeting presence of an architectural object as an urban intervention could spark interest, activity and conscious thought about the urban realm. The temporary building can exist as a moment, a brief performance, a memory of the urban environment that passes us by.
This project will attempt to document and develop an understanding of how we might measure and critique the short-term temporal existence of architecture
THE PROJECT
The proposal is to design a small exhibition space, a temporary piece of architecture.
Its existence in the urban environment will provoke interaction and interest in the surrounding built context. The temporary piece of architecture will be a receptacle, a store of information about the urban environment in which it exists. And, as quickly as it appears, the piece of architecture will disappear, remembered only as a photograph, a movie, a memory.
The exhibition space will exhibit images of the city: historical, present day and proposed. The specific location of the pavilion becomes important then as it enhances the relationship between the viewer or occupant and the surrounding urban realm. For example, the exhibition pavilion could exist in Forrest Place, and show images of the architectural and built development of that site over the last 200 years. The location of the pavilion then becomes relevant to the internal content, and the design of the exhibition pavilion can respond to historical lessons and ideas.
THE LOCATION
The urban environment: Perth.
If we consider Perth to be a city created by a boom and bust cycle, then we assume that the city has a modern veneer, and an erased memory. Old buildings that once were are reduced to images of the past, stored in libraries and books. We imagine that the public awareness and collective memory fades. The temporary building, the receptacle, can be a source of memory, a moment where people stop, look inside and see what the city once was.
The receptacle can enliven underused urban spaces, provide activation and interaction of inhabitants to their urban environment, and exhibit time passed. Then, as with the buildings in the photographs, the receptacle itself is removed from the environment and consigned to memory.
OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES
The project will research the relationships between architecture, consciousness and memory.
The project will deliver a piece of temporary architecture, designed as an exhibition pavilion. It will exist in the city of Perth.
The pavilion will need to be relevant to site, historical, cultural, spatial and theoretical contexts.
It will temporarily occupy an urban space in Perth, with reactions, interactions and inhabitation of the space recorded, documented and published online. Through this process, a further public awareness of urban and architectural history of the city will hopefully occur.
The project will also research methods and techniques for judging the success of architectural notions and concepts such as activation, interaction, awareness and inhabitation.
SOME PRAGMATICS
The temporary pavilion will be researched and designed throughout the course of the semester, 100 days.
The object will be dismantled or destroyed once it is no longer needed, and should be constructed from recycled materials to save money, and to test notions of architectural sustainability.
To be temporary, the pavilion needs to be restricted in the time it takes to install and uninstall. As such, the pavilion should be able to be assembled in 72 hours and disassembled in 24 hours. To enable installation in the urban environment, the pavilion will need to be transportable.
The temporary pavilion should be used and adaptable as a small exhibition space, with room for up to eight people (the number of honours design students). The intimacy of the space will make the design and construction of the pavilion realistic.
Shortly before my brother proposed to his girlfriend with a massive fireworks display out the back of the pub.
21 November 2013
From 174 photos, this is the artist's choice. I like the two pines behind Laura; they mimic the two people.
Moonlit tree, seen from my back yard. Inspired by this picture on deviantART.
The "proposal" part of the title comes from this: My partner / "boyfriend" / OneTrueLove of 17 years proposed to me today :D Today, the California Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the law that states a marriage is between a man and a woman. He came into my work, brought me 17 roses (one for each year we've been together), and asked me to marry him.
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"jill will u marry me?"
congrats jill!
vote for it here: plane proposal over Rehoboth Beach
please :)
Visit to Chicago on March 28, 2013. I took this photo in front of a bridal display in Macy's store window (see photo below). What remains unknown is whether this was a serious proposal or simply an acting out inspired by the bridal display. A rather humorous coincidence in that this occurred while Marsha and I were looking at the store windows.
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