poem one

samurai


first love


shattered house

oh its a foray.

The project is a foray, hence schematic and tenuous in definition. It is an experiential exploration of emotions, history, ethics, and cultural consciousness. Because it's an exploration, it is appropriate for visitors to participate, by purchasing pieces or fixtures to ammend the site/project. It is a sculpture and an eternal work in progress, therefore bound to be schematic and in flux.


Flux: changing materiality... fragmented, dissolving... continually evolving through use.... ...also, as our consciousness/memory about the bombings changes (which it will as we become further removed), our perception of this place will also change... hence its use and appearance. Can't define the place or the experince of the tragedy. Furthermore, you cannot define individual responses to the tragedy and the site....

flexible... modulor.... rather than static.

collision.

memorial = celebration space

beauty is from old and new. subdue anger. collide ideas. actions are made to emulate hope.

yes this has happened..deal with it.

effect? growth. tumor. negative or positive. collide ideas, human interactions.

time: history is changed because of event, ability to effect others internationally. war is the oldest form of conflict, is global. ability to rid of a problem quickly. to get what one wants without fully thinking through the consequences, or if anything, not wanting to face others issues...its an opinion.

in the end, anger....has no pertinence.

the place between departure....destination.

appetite.

dark night. cars. explosions..invisible perspicacity ...
Effect!?: "CANCER".... "GROWTH"..... "TUMOR"....
the people can alter the rate of change.

the breakdown of materials.

constraints become apparent because of the concequences.

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West Wendover ghost town.
1931- 1964
8000 people at its peak
left vacant in 1967

international vs individual

financial issues, West Wendover fallen to pieces
TOTAL SITE: 18-36 mi. wide x 86 mi. long
Wendover field was used for training

air
water
space
from the shards of war...reform. regrowth.

.on the other side of the tracks

this western town.

is this a forgotton american town...ah, but we can gamble here. reborn?
the abandoned airbase becomes useful...how?
the church is now an apartment complex. air conditioners bellow out of each window..like small, regulated tu....
the history is torn and jagged. it is recreating itself into something.....
false facade. casino playground.the town was renewed ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS.

these are my thoughts. on this town.

forgotten space..lost and found.

FAST / NON / FAST

EXPLORE: Wendover, as the site.
EXPLORE: Protect + Maintain VS Conquer + Colonization of place.
EXPLORE: Change of building use when a new purpose arises.
PERHAPS EXPLORE: A new language to mediate speed and _______
mediate dead and alive.
mediate natural and artificial.

an abandoned place.
a place of reflection..fate..concider consequences?

barren landscape.

Earth Art....according to Metamorph

Is as the stage for conflict between art and architecture.
Is an image of our post industrial age, a conceptual model.
Is still of an untested potential.

Works such as the "Spiral Jetty", "Party Buried Woodshed", and "Double Negative" are all examples of Earth Art. Is there any instance of an Earth Architecture?
Constructivism + Cubism + Minimalism = architectural projects, not earth architecture

Harold Bloom: "The Anxiety of Influence": Earth Art serves architecture as influence.
Sola-Morales' essay on "Terrain Vague":
art seeks to protect and maintain VS architecture is to conquer and colonize terrain

Can Architecture articulate the passage of time without itself dissapearing!?
Does it EVOKE an image of the terrain?
ex: Herzog + Meuron's Schaulager in Basel, where the facade appears to be a compressed version of the surroundings.

Being open to..feelings of the place.
EARTH ART stands as a mirror image of the fragile nature of architecture.

THE POWER TIME HAS ON ARCHITECTURE.

entering into night.

"I AM DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS."

• from Hindu scripture

a bump in the night.

a limit of our perception?

the prime motivation.

MATERIALITY: shows the fragile nature of everything in our world, and the power we have to control things...BUT nature will always bring everything back, the cycle of life...everything EVERYTHING returns eventually. This project shows the fragile of human life, and the physicality of ONE human being becomes apparent to the viewer, and if the viewer can reflect on this fact, and perhaps allow ones self to be open to how the materiality expresses this and other worldly ideas...................



FORAY...A SUDDEN SHORT 'ATTACK'..... FROM DEVELOPING THE NOTION OF THE TRADITIONAL....THEN DEPICTING HOPE..



5'6"..SIZE OF AVERAGE PERSON.. 5'6"...SIZE OF BLOCKS WHICH VIEWER/ EXPERIENCE-ER CAN USE TO INSERT INTO THE INTERPRETATION

W.Churchill:

"The only sure thing in life is conflict"