Neil Ayaso

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Black Box

Erika Kruger (Black Box)p32

This slide is showing what appear to be shadows cast onto an undulating landscape. They mould and conform themselves to the ground’s subtle corrugations, but the shadows also alter the landscape by creating negative spaces within its boundaries. Despite this the shadows still become a part of the new landscape that is created rather than becoming an idiosyncratic element that doesn’t belong.

This ties in with my own design which aims to create spaces separate but at the same time integral to the landscape in which they are situated, creating a new landscape rather than just destroying the first. In my design however, I cannot simply form my spaces to follow the contours of the land as unlike shadows they are not flat.

Electroliquid Aggregation

“In science it's really exciting when new technologies start getting to a state when you can actually use them.....Electricity can make such a difference to people's lives. They can read at night."

– Nicole Kuepper

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

– Charles Darwin

ELECTROLIQUID AGRIGATION

“It is not the latest technologies, nor is it most advanced that becomes the most significant. It is those that can get to a state where they are actually useful.”

Buildings are devices used by people, much like any other technology. And like any other piece of technology their intrinsic value lies not in level of complexity or technical advancement but in their ability to fulfil a need, as expressed by Kuepper.

This links in with Darwin and his thoughts on the mechanisms of natural selection that the survival of any given organism lies in its ability to adapt. Technology including architecture is constructed for an initial purpose that in time may become obsolete; they then will face destruction unless they are judged to be able to meet another purpose in which they can be useful once more.