'Stupid' Ideas for Architecture
Exploring the collapse of mind and matter through conceptual (a)tec(h)tonics
The project begins with the desire to ‘look’ beneath the sur-face of reality and into the poché of the material. It is mining these never-to-be spaces of non-experience for their conceptual, imaginary, and emancipatory potential. It investigates the questions of freedom through visuality: proposing a new materiality where vision, understood as the struggle with opacity, is dispersed within the material bulk. Through a series of strictly site-specific wall projections the project restages transparency/invisibility, finding the necessary material frictions to return it to its role in dissolving architecture and enacting transgressions across the opaque materiality of the object. Architecture becomes a direct technology of vision.
The projections effectively undo representation and leave the viewer in a space where there is nothing left to see. The technological setup involved in the creation of these installations, from light collection with fisheye lens arrays to viewer specific analysis and display, constitutes a prototype for a ‘seeing architecture.’
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TRANSPARENCY PRECEDENT
“transform the surface of sensory appearances into a new sensorium that is a mirror of its own activity”
Ranciere
TECHNOLOGIES OF VISION
MATERIALITY AND VISION DIAGRAMS
CONCEPTUAL TECHNOMATERIAL DEVICES CONSTRUCTED FOR THE PROJECT
OPERATIONAL DIAGRAM FOR ONE OF THE PROJECTION ROOMS
Spatialized light collection,
depth of field,
virtual view reconstruction,
false transparency,
invisibility
“our objective should not be to renounce matter but rather to search for a form of matter other than objects. What that form is called – architecture gardens, computer technology – is not important. I will call it anti-object.”
Kengo Kuma
