Hello people, back again with a new blog. And today I will talk about what happened yesterday; an exhibition, the ending of the first element in my final year's studio project.
The exhibition 'The distillation of history' explores the heritage site and how the materials on site will inform the building as it rises from the ground up. Initially, the materials collected from the abandoned site and are put through contemporary filters which include monoprinting and 3D extraction to create a sequential iterative process of work to produce finalised pieces that are either printed onto the new brick or to produce some concepts for the plans of the new building.
The exhibition is displayed on the floor with the piece set in a linear sequence to showcase the step-to-step iteration of monoprinting and extraction. How did I come up with the concept? It just happened, as unpredictable as the prints, the sequence of iteration became unpredictable. I knew that I wanted to use the different materials to showcase different extractions and elements but what were they going to be? I didn't know.
The use of monoprinting was initially chosen as it is a contemporary piece of art production and it is an unpredictable process which helps me avoid making predictions at the first stage of design. The unpredictability of the process opened many ranges of processes and possibilities which had to be controlled. What I mean is that each individual piece could have been extracted into a 3d piece and then used to create another monoprint that would then be further distilled to create the concepts and lines. But that would lead to chaos, and this is where the difference of architecture and art come in; architecture has to be controlled in a certain way to ensure that it would eventually be viable for use in the continuation of the project.
The process helped extract 3d information that would lead to the creation of a prototype brick and some final conceptual forms for the next stage of the process.
I enjoyed working through this iterative process as much as I enjoyed seeing the whole exhibition coming together as a current progression of the project. I learnt that by not being stuck up as much on the final outcome and keeping that a mystery leads to amazing ways of looking at architecture.
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