Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Slide _06 of 15

2 comments:

marc said...

how is this a strategy for making?

Hot Ashes for Trees said...

Previously, I have equated accident with unintention and melody. Spaces between current functioning structures or paradigms that offer the possibility for a new purpose.

“… defeat restores to things their individual reality … The defeat itself turns into salvation. For example, poetic language rises out of the ruins of prose.”
- Jean-Paul Sarte

The Architecture of Image by Juhani Pallasmaa

I feel that ruin is an impetus for creation. I am not calling ruin specifically a strategy for construction but I feel that it is, and should be, a significant condition for creation. In my project I am attempting to apply a context where somewhere within the structure and function within citizens of our society there is a type of ruin which will compel, either conscious or unconscious, a need for creation and reinvention. I am thinking that hypothesizing a need will help me to choose a site that would provide the conditions for a possible solution.