Brutal Beauty_ Reimagining Concrete
“Brutalism tries to face up to a mass-production society, and drag a rough poetry out of the confused and powerfulforces which are at work. Up to now Brutalism has been discussed stylistically, whereas its essence is ethical.”
-A&P Smithson1. Boston City Hall 2. Trellick Tower 3. SESC Pompéia
By inserting the brutalism architecture into the site as a heterogeneous object that does not consider the surrounding social, historical, and architectural context, it is isolated from the surrounding landscape and destroys the locality of the region.
How should concrete look in order for it to be culturally accepted as a sustainable material?
“Robin Hood Garden is a relic of an era that simply doesn’t exist anymore, and is representative of a time of post-war optimism that put people before profits”
A cut disrupted the arrangement of the container, altering its height, capacity, position, and balance point. This cut reveals a new arrangement within a structure, reshaping and arranging its geometric layout, circulation, and purpose.
New face born and an area been overlapped. When we assign each face attribute, on the top part the back faces came to the front and the front faces came to the back. The cut broke the order of architecture.
