Portfolio [ Projects, drawings and illustrations ] Sabrina Morreale AADip RIBA PART II
The Pinball Project AA Dip 2015-16
The pinball project is part of a one year project making a pinball machine from scratch, adding new pieces to it. The project argues that we adopt a game mentality, because play is a core allegory of cultural production.
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Fragments AA Dip 2015-16
From the day we come out of the womb, we begin collecting. Our lives are the embodiment of a constant process of assembly. Each of us builds our persona through the collection of tiny moments, events, fragments, stimuli, and the means by which we connect and make sense of them. The question is really, how do we make sense of this vast, and almost immeasurable sea of islands and objects.
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The use of references AA Dip 2015-16
Constructing drawing through the references that we acknowledge in every architectural school: from left to right: Cedric Price’s aviary, John Soane’s house, Duchamp’s urinal and Peggy Guggenheim’s museum in Venice.
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Moments AA Dip 2015-16
In describing landscapes, we most often refer to topographic conditions and landmarks. This landscape however, is the means by which we orient and define ourselves. This island gives us our coordinates and our points of reference to locate us. The first stage is always to map the landscape, much like a cartographer. And so we are able to differentiate the interior from the edge, and locate the next island.
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Landscapes AA Dip 2015-16
Nowadays, we are experimenting with the land itself. We can no longer differentiate between the natural and the man-made. These artificial islands include floating structures, and small islets that support a single pillar of a building or structure, or instead entire communities and cities. What we need to be interested in is that all these lands are part of a topological condition. Always moving, always changing.
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Chance AA Dip 2015-16
The construction of the pinball can only be implemented through various elements that are used to go forward in the game. In this game, the more you encounter, the more you score, and the more fragments you accumulate. You continuously slam into references, figures, conversations, places, and all of them contribute to shape your identity, and most of the movements are dictated by chance.
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Looping AA Dip 2015-16
On the Inside of the pinball, the machine is constructed with intricate connections to slide the marbles as fast as possible. To begin, you pull the lever. The ball is thrown into the playfield, and all you can do is to take in as much as possible. The aim is to keep the ball moving and avoid any possible stalemate.
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Constructing cities AA Dip 2015-16
The experience of architecture in this level, is not defined by space or by form but by the connections that we make. These connections are the city itself.
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Creating ground AA Dip 2015-16
Whereas the way of linking is varied across the islands, the bridges are the foundations of this landform. Without them, the ball would simply drop and the game would be over. Without the bridges, without the conceptual and formal means of connection, everything just floats in a vacuum. The architect’s objective must always be to build links, to forge connections, and build the foundations of a cultural and material ground.
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Inception of ideas AA Dip 2015-16
This project does not accept parthenogenesis. Creation does not come from nothing. Rather, it comes from an aggregation of experience. The future architectural studio invite students to create their own pinball machine to create and to influence each other.
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Authorship AA Dip 2014-15
The factory examines architectural production. Architecture as a discipline is strictly dictated by individual authorship. Although, we have always been taught to collaborate and exchange ideas, in the architectural environment there is always been a strong emphasis on what is it that you made. What is yours?
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Originality AA Dip 2014-15
Although the project is not concerning a direct extract of the original translated into a different context. What the factory is searching for is for works in which the copy is a translation, in which there is no certainty in what we can call the original, the first. Because, at the end, it does not matter.
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Appropriation AA Dip 2014-15
Authenticity is an action which need to be implemented in the architectural discourse. What we have today is the figure of the architect which do not want to acknowledge the many others involved in the project. The project is a continuous action of appropriation and the architect become the aggregator of this.
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Collective AA Dip 2014-15
This project calls for a form of collaboration which make space for exchange fragments. Architecture would benefit from becoming part of a broader shared knowledge and practice. Where projects would be free to be seen and used by anyone. Every time the project evolves, and it is presented, you are not just reconstructing the originals, you are keeping alive their previous life significance and authors. Although you are presenting something new. It is a well an action which prevent the work to end up in an archive. You become the ballad singer of architecture, keeping it alive.
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Oxford Press English Book May 2016
Illustration made for a book of English produced by the Oxford Press. The book is called English File Elementary Students Book. It is a 4th edition of an existing title. It is for teaching English to students who are learning English as a foreign language.
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Portrait November 2015
Private project commissioned work
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Tote Bag OSSO MAGAZINE
Bloomsbury Hotel Tea Box
July 2016
April 2015
Osso is an Italian magazine which collects the latest in art, design, music , illustration , film and photography. The design has been printed on 5000 bag for their annual opening in Milan.
MyHotel Tea box competition In one of the most iconic square in Bloomsbury, lies a place that meets Georgian Architecture with contemporaneity. MyHotel is offering a vibrant space, where people are invited to relax, meet and enjoy every single of moment of what London can offer. Bloomsbury in a box, summarizes the efficiency of design and simplicity of details in a splendid hand-made tea box.
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