MONADNOCK Job Floris João Francisco Sousa
Alison Mayer Bram Van Roey David Helesic Diyar Ünlücay Eina Shin Federico Lepre Gabriela Barbulescu Géraldine Recker Giacomo Ambrosini Jonas Horbach Julia Nahmani Laura Bruther Lu Lisbeth Kueck Luis Peña Torres Magnus Holm Margherita Lurani Maria Rønne Vang Pedro Stattmiller Albuquerque Coutinho Sara Sampaio Yagiz Soylev
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BRIEF MONADNOCK LIFE WITH OBJECTS This workshop explores the idea of scale, architectural scale that is. The aim is to obtain a territory of objects that is deliberately unclear. Where the interior merges with the exterior, the scale of furniture merges with that of buildings, where big becomes small and small becomes big. Throughout history, the idea of scale has fuelled discourse and experiments, the idea is to question and challenge this basic tool of architectural expression. Besides buildings, Aldo Rossi designed and produced small models. Atmospheric, melancholic spaces, containing spatial intentions merged with domestic elements. Bringing in mind the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, where the exchange, merging and blending of interior and exterior seemed to be among the constant motives. To frame the content, make use of both contemporary elements as historical. As a method, in order to obtain a certain degree of magic realism, one starts from a physical space: choose one. In order to charge such space, one chooses a fragment of building, in scaled form. The task is to produce a suggestive design of an interior space, containing: 1 window 1 fireplace 1 piece of furniture 1 monumental gesture 1 architectural model The space should contain objects that express materiality, moments of refinement, and of abstraction. As a product, one image of the physical model will be the objective, which will be photographed, along with a written paragraph describing the possible narrative of this space.
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Seeing the world as an ant. The danger comes from the walls.
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MONADNOCK FINAL WORK
Looking out of my window I see a cityscape, while looking through it I see an interior. The windowframe is my threshold, it is the only thing I understand, all else is up to my imagination.
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Am I in the playroom where is a pile of toys just behind the corner? Or stricly racional city full of adminitrative buildings? Who knows?
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The Space is in between dream imaginary and in reality . City is in our part of living and the imagine space is also coexisted within the inner or outter space.
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A chair is not a chair, A house is not a home. Because my skin is -------, yo I’m gonna do the town. [fragmented quotes]
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Overcast 60° Humid
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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.� Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972
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A urban grid rises up with marble planes. The buildings can’t help themselves but to disorderly occupy each room.
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I received her letter yesterday. I think I am falling in love again‌
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When you don‘t have a feeling of scale, it is easy to fall in loneliness. But this loneliness could also be a blessing.
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When the house took off from the woods to go hunting, it came across big city lights and traces of the past.
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See things as they appear, look at things as you perceive.
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Animals of the same family mirroring themself. Every year they will get a new leg, while they have people who works on every floor inside of them.
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To be a GOOD architect you have to free your interior Gulliver from the Lilliputians. To be a GREAT architect, you have to transform yourself in a Lilliputian, and learn all the rules that they live with.
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For all the buildings to gather toghether in this specific space took nothing but just the St John Flag.
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The scale reveals itself through the depth. The mass unfolds, the surface peels off.
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PORTO ACADEMY / 2017 This booklet was designed and produced at the editorial design workshop at Porto Academy.
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