monday sketches.

BRITISH LAND. STAGE 1

collaboration with Ludmila Bebjakova

In our project, we are interested in the flow of the habitual materials, of the past into a modern time used in architecture. We are juxtaposing three forms and three different materials, which are representing the transition through this time change.

Our choice was to employ concrete, bricks and steel, what is the traditional architectural material commonly used in masonry construction.

We proposed three benches on wheels that are movable.

The benches are shaped to some kind of panels or walls, what metaphorically brings the idea of some protection.

In our project, we are suggesting a social spot, seating area that offers people passing by to stop, have a break and engage with the art installation, which also serves a practical function.

The benches have not a typical seating position, they have lowered or raised position and they are movable. The work interacts with the public and it also shifts the sense of fellowship. This spatial sculpture metaphorically transforms the idea of domesticity into the public.

 The concept of the work reflects contemporary design and architecture, but furthermore awareness of the intrinsically human-scaled design of the objects with which we surround ourselves in nowadays and exploits the severing of this connection, by removal of the object's function, to application it in a different context.

The contemporary time is very unstable; it changes from one element to the other. The traditional materials used in architecture are changing they conventional way of operations. For this reason, we would like to expose concrete, bricks, and steel as components in such of modern architectural surrounding as Euston area. It would be in one way reversed, but interactive at the same time. The choice of the materials is also based on their transitivity, where the steel bench changes the surface by time. On the shinny polished surface, where rain drops mark their way.., day by day, they leave rusty spots after slipping. In the context of transition of time and physical mobility explored in design, we illustrated the benches with castors. There is a possibility, that their position or the place/area can be changed by moving the structures. The project could be situated in various parts of the British Land area.

As an opposition aspect of transformation, we selected the concrete as the second sample, which provides stability or time conservation. There is a certain mystery in guessing the time, when a certain object was made or for how long has been used. In compare with some other architectural materials as bricks, where is easy to recognise the touch of time. Bricks reflect the time on their surface, they carry memories through the lifetime, and while the time passes they change their shape…

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