CULTURAL 'GAP'

The issue of tis project is the perception of the space between recent architecture and old building. 

Analysed object – Chelsea building. Chelsea College was a polemical college founded in London in 1609. This establishment was intended to centralize controversial writing against Catholicism. In the 1650s the College became a prison; and in the Second Anglo-Dutch War of the mid-1660s it housed prisoners of war. After proposals including an observatory, the site was devoted to Chelsea Hospital. In 1895 building was established as South-Western Polytechnic, in 1908 as Chelsea College of Art and in 1989 as College of Art and Design.

The idea is to emphasize the recent ‘gaps‘ which are main connections between cultures, generations and history. The  aim of the gap separation is to feel differences between 17th century space and recent. The mirror allow us to see dimensional view and brings us closer to old culture. 

model.
brick - mirror - wall