Sunday, November 27, 2011

2011_1126_Room_Ride_2011


A project from 1986 revived in SketchUp.

"Room/Ride" - Arising out of dissatisfaction that the painting had simply generated horizontal planes in the Design Centre and that the building represented a programme rather than being reflection of a poststructuralist space, the Room is a further development of the use of the painting and attempts an architectural space "as is". Perhaps, it could be seen as an alternative to the endless perspective of a universal grid or as a hidden corner within the grid. The painting is folded into a box - the room and planes are projected to create both horizontal and vertical enclosure. A reading of the painting in terms of lines and volumetric fragments are added so that no single interpretation is stressed. A further transformation involves the rotation of an armature of planes so that the structure becomes a-centric.