Tower of Time
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references collages drawing model site plan
Perry Kulper
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Lebbeus Woods
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Tom Noonan
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Lebbeus Woods
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“... That was where the kite runners came in, those kids who chased the wind- blown kite drifting through the neighborhoods until it came spiraling down in a field, dropping in someone’s yard, on a tree, or a rooftop. The chase got pretty fierce; hordes of kite runners swarmed the streets, shoved past each other like those people from Spain I’d read about once, the ones who ran from the bulls. One year a neighborhood kid climbed a pine tree for a kite. A branch snapped under his weight and he fell thirty feet...” - Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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“From the high garden, or from one of your tree-top castles, you look out upon everything, you see for miles and miles; but in your dark little caves in the ivy-bank you can sit and dream. Up in your tree-castle you often sit dreaming, of course; and from your hidden cave, through it’s ivy curtain, you love to peep; still, in the main, one is the Out-world’s Watch-tower, the other the In-world’s Gate.” - Geddes P., The World Without And The World Within, Sunday Talks With My Children, 1905
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“The use of [relaxed] language might allow us new conceptualizations of how we might navigate...or broaden how we think about heterogeneity, difference, things that can’t be named, or aren’t categorizeable, things that drop us into a horizon of disorientation but where we might develop plasticity as architects…” - Perry Kulper
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following the conveyor
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being lost
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finding the right path
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waiting for the conveyor
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formation of the tower
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being inside of the prosecc
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collision
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landscape
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In this place it becomes difficult to define human scale and recognise the remains of architecture. Its speculation brought me to the site near a dam. This place emanates in duality. On one hand brings new the landscape, new living areas on the edge of a dam and the connection between two different lands... but on the other hand it is a separation, strong boundary, end of continuity. This contradiction explains the strong relation of a tower with time and it occurs in the process of architecture formation. This is is a place which seems to be waiting for a new visitors to honour them with an unusual experience and at the same time it is a memory of space, a mystified architecture of silence, built there to be left alone, forgotten. Sometimes the conveyors touch the ground. It feels heavy. First people’s hands are raised to the sky trying to reach... touch... balance the heaviness of the tubes with a delicate moment of reconnection with the ground. this creates its scenery. The speculation on the objects becomes its own independent reality... its world, new environment, architecture; the architecture of non human scale but undeniably human made.
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Collision of these actors evolves in new situations. The exploration of light and shadow creates new spaces. Some of them are represented in a drawing, some just suggested by numerous sketches. The landscape is more defined. Making models explains the details, relation with time, scale and materiality. It all makes the new architecture closer to the spectator. The form of a tower explores the conveyors. Many of them arrived here and many more are coming.
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The tower resembles the place where the objects from the sky are moulded together. The relation with time is explained with the moment. The presented scene is a place of waiting for ther conveyors or for the new visitors to honour them with an unusual experience and at the same time it is a memory of space, a mystified architecture of silence, built there to be left alone, forgotten.Â
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Thank you for your attenttion Weronika Gajda
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