MARKINGS
KAROLINA BOUROU
2017 . Columbia University GSAPP
Impressions
Stamps Bumps Textures Surfaces Landscapes
Translations
Postface
Urban Markings
City Block
Disruption
Window Shopping
Analogy
Breathing Data
Perpetuation
Bee Sanctuary
Density
We Sleep
Translation
Language Center
Process
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I start with the idea of a wound¡ a disruption on a surface, in a way that reveals another nature.
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I look into depth,
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and make a series of impressions,
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which transform into surfaces and landscapes.
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My tools are found objects¡ Soft surfaces to carry my patterns, diagrams and ideas.
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I am interested in the tension between the controlled carvings and the unpredictable impressions. I am interested in a set of rules that allows for multiple interpretations and transformation.
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I am interested in a message that travels through form and meaning.
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Pass on, get across, get through, transfer. Form one medium to the other. Foam, ink, paper, digital, plaster.
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Urban Markings
Rules, grids, raptures, carvings and curves. In the following chapters you will find five buildings, designed for a city block in New York City. Each building is assigned a program and an intention. 1
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Enter this building and you will be caught up in an endless window shopping loop, for there is no end to the industry of need making.
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Window Shopping Disruption
The experience of retail is heavily reliant on endless and seamless circulation. In response to the consumerist frenzy, a new typology of public space has become popular. The circulation cores of office buildings expand to provide space for consumers, enthusiasts and bloggers who want to shop the back of house process of retail. Window shopping units emerge from the ground as interior alleys, where a series of stairs and viewing bays penetrate the office building to offer views to the world of retail, in the making.
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The viewing units emerge from the ground and multiply as they grow in height. On the street level, the units help organise an informal market around them.
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Window shopping office Program: Make up a need, Create a concept, Design, Produce, Distribute, Capitalize, Resume.
Marketing headquarters, Advertizing company, Design office, Fabrication spaces, Distribution centers, Corporate offices, Resume.
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Viewing cores in section, as they puncture through the office spaces.
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Breathing Data Analogy
Our personal digital data are essential to our identity but they grow under a precarious condition of ownership. This building stores personal digital information and breathes oxygen, in an attempt to suggest a symbiotic relationship between the two. Oxygen is a hazard for data centers but vital for life. This building has a breathing lung. A pipe structure recycles the air involved in the server cooling system and hosts an algae ecosystem to regulate air pollution.
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Enter this building and look up to the 580-feet tall scaffolding of an algae ecosystem.
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Enter this building and access all your personal digital data.
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A lung is carved out from the tower. The lung detects and regulates air pollution through the algae ecosystem, which grows in parallel to the data storage.
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Breathing Data. Air to the data server enclosures is channeled through the pipe structure of the algae scaffolding .
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Structural and circulation cores.
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Bee Sanctuary Perpetuation
After a dangerous pollination decline report, bee sanctuaries became the latest adaptation of the community garden typology. This sanctuary is a canopy system with moving parts. The structural columns are designed to perform these movements and host the parts of the honey extraction process. The canopy is designed to support the pollination fields,on the highest level of the structure and shelter the community gardens below it.
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Enter this garden and force yourself on a meditative state. The bees sense fear and one needs to be calm when around them.
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The bees have their exclusive pollination gardens with flowers at the top level,
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and a shared vegetable garden in the community garden areas.
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pollination gardens
public areas & community gardens
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The structural column is expanded in four smaller columns making space in the center to host the moving beehive units.
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The beehive boxes live both at the elevated gardens and the public areas on the street level.
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When the honey is ready the boxes can be pulled down to the extraction floor.
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In the basement, the centrifuges are accessible for the honey extraction.
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We Sleep Density
Rent a bed in this open plan building for short term stays in the city. Overnight, over-week, or just for an hour’s sleep. This hotel is a porous body, where curly walls make hubs for beds. In this shared space, there are no private areas, other than the curtain you can pull around your bed island. On the ground floor, a diagonal path divides a public pilotis into a the food market and eating areas.
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Found object, scored and used as a stamp.
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Language Center Translations
Language is the essential medium for communication and social fitness. This is a learning center for languages and their corresponding cultures. The building is made up by 4 concrete bars to each represent the formal sections of language learning: Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking. The four bars are interrupted by a free form volume, which contradicts both in program and spatial qualities the rigidity of the bars. The freeform volume becomes the heart of the building and it’s projection on the ground floor creates the main public space- an open pool.
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The pool of Babel.
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Virtual reality learning hubs.
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Process
At first, I score a soft surface, such as foam board, in a grid or a linear pattern. On the scored surface I apply ink or acrylic, or plaster. I use the stamp on paper. And stamp again. And again. The stamp responds to the amount of ink and hand pressure applied. In every impression the dye gradually dissolves and makes thinner impressions. I am interested in the unpredictable and multiple responses of the ink to the originally carved pattern. Next, I give my prints depth. I scan the stamps and process them digitally. Digital impressions on plaster. The shadows of the plaster transform the patterns into landscapes. Faults, rifts or earthly wounds that need our attention.
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