Thursday, 17 December 2009

Walking, Section 3: Between One and Another, Chapter 3 | Art and Architecture: A Place Between, Jane Rendell


Movement Through Space


The design of buildings based on predetermined routes


Examples:

• Mobius House (UN Studio) - designed around a flexible program where daily activities can take place at any point on either of the two routes

• Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgard - visitor is immersed in continuous movement of shifting orientations and crossed viewpoints


As we walk through a space:


• we engage with concepts and experiences of place, space and site

• we relate one location to another

• we rethink place as unfixed and as site performed

• the subject is temporarily positioned in motion between a series of scenes

• new connections are made physically and conceptually over time and through space

• past happenings and future imaginings are brought into the present

• understanding sites in flux

• encounter sites in motion and in relation to one another

• Spaces/places seem different on whether we are walking to them/ walking away from them

Focused vision confronts us in the world

Peripheral vision envelopes us in the world

• Gain an experience of the space

• Shifting perspectives


By intervening and moving though a site, walking proposes a design method that enables one to imagine beyond the present condition without freezing possibility into form.


• Pace, constant motion, moving from one thing to another, engaging only in passing

• Spatial stories - narrative relationships between spaces, time and subjects


Installation art and sculpture that needs and embraces human exploration and meandering in order to be fully recognised.


Journeys

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