ISLAND MAGAZINE ISSUE 4

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C O N N E C T I O N I N T I M E . e x p e c tat i o n s .

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will it be in 2055?

this issue:

THE CONNECTION IN TIME a final reveal.

IN 2055.

THE FUTUR E FISHING INDUSTURY, THE FUTUR E ISL AND in last issue, a fishing market center was introduced on the barrier wall that surrounding the magazine island here comes the questions again... how this wall reactivates the diminishing fishing

industury in aberdeen? the wall doesn’t spatially connects aberdeen and the neglected island, but the reconnection works through time.

imagining image on wall in 2035, 20 years after its establisshment

why magazine island? the cover story:

ISLAND AS A FISHING STATION

industury

1800 VIRGIN

an imaginary timeline

the magazine island, which got its name from its fishing

industury.

dynamite storage history, was once landed, utilised and

While the barrier, as a architectural intrution, not simply

then abandoned along with the fall of aberdeen fishing

captures attention and expectations on the island by the

w i t h o ut t h e wa l l

w i t h t h e wa l l

2015 industury

N E G L E CT E D

2035 industury

N E G L E CT E D

2055

industury 1915

industury

N E G L E CT E D

wa l l e d

industury

industury

1850

1915

PLANTED

ABANDONED

aberdeen community, but might also become a temporary

the wall? would it be habitated as an major part of the

infrastructure that rebuild the island, and the industury.

reconstruction of the traditional industury?

would the magazine island be brought back to function by

industury

1935

PLANTING?

industury 2055

R E A CT I VAT E ?

a final question

WHAT IT WILL BE IN 2055? the re-raise of fishing industry.

A rc h i t e ct u r e d o e s n ' t l i e o n t h e to p d o w n p l a n n i n g o n t h e f ut u r e a b e r d e e n f i s h i n g i n d u st u ry m a g a z i n e i s l a n d . t h e f ut u r e s i m p l i y r e p o s e o n t h e e x e c utat i o n o f e x p e ctat i o n c r e at e d b y t h e b a r r i e r wa l o n t h e n e g l e ct e d i s l a n d . .

this colsing:

THE NEGLECTED EXPECTATIONS a final brief.

T h i s i s a sto ry o n c o n st r u ct i n g e x p e ctat i o n s o n a n e g l e ct e d island.

T h e f i s h i n g c u lt u r e i s d i s c r e t i n g f r o m t h e c o nt e m p o r a ry A b erdeen.

T h e r e h a s b e e n a n i nv i si b l e b a r r i e r b et w e e n t h e f lo at i n g v i l l a g e a n d t h e A b e r d e e n r e s i d e nt s .

C o u l d t h e c r e at i o n a n d d e f o r m at i o n of a physical barrier of the abandoned magazine island, w h i c h wa s o n c e pa rt i c i pat i n g i n t h e f i s h i n g i n d u st ry , so m e h ow b e c o m i ng a r e - c o n n e cto r o f t h e c o nt e m p o r a ry H K r e s i d e nt s a n d t h e o l d f lo at i n g v i l l a g e ?

C o u l d t h e r e a ct i vat i o n o f t h e i s l a n d in 50 years time r e c o n st r u ct t h e 5 0 0 y e a r s o l d f i s h i n g i n d u st ry o f A b e r d e e n ?

T h i s i s a p r o j e ct o n c r e at i n g c o n n e ct i o n s a n d e x p e ctat i o n s w i t h a b a r r i e r o n a n e g l e cta n c e .