A city of extraneous narratives
This project exists in three realms; a book, a table and a screen. They operate collectively, as contexts.
The city of extraneous narratives exists in three realms; a book, a table and a screen.
Much like the collection of narratives in the book, context is not singular but multiplicitous. Exploding it into narrative, site and time, the project operates in these three contexts collectively.
The project argues for the idea to re-contextualize the table, to declare it as the locus for the unbuilt. However, in order to be able to create the site, we must first create its own narrative context, the book, separating it from site.
By turning pages in the book, superimposing spaces on the table and overlaying moments on the screen, the sequential framing within the three realms constantly recreates conditions.
The table however is the only spatial moment that is drawn in the project which exists physically in three dimensions at true scale. It is the only of the three realms, through which we can come together and collaborate around.
Contents
The project is composed of isolated spaces and their associated fictions. They exist in their independent state within the book, as well as collective on the table and screen. What connects them is their architecture, where the points of connection are shifts in scale.
The construction of this city is one space at a time, much like we experience architecture. What is peripheral in one moment becomes central in another, suggesting their simultaneity.
Appropriated table
An AA table as a given object is appropriated here to create the very site for the project.
Cloud
Something as mundane as a cloud can infiltrate in our reading of architecture when it veils, in the context of the aerial photograph.
Book narratives
The architect uses the city to create a fiction out of it. Drawing is a form of construction and abstraction itself.
Frame as table
In the Manhattan Transcripts by Tschumi, what the rigid, square frame excludes is arbitrary, much like the borders of each page in the book.
Re-contextualized table
By turning pages in the book, superimposing spaces on the table and overlaying moments on the screen, the sequential framing constantly recreates conditions.
Streets
Moving from the streets to the interior, the plan depicts, suggests and describes relationships. Walls, doors and windows both separate and connect inhabited space.
Animation
The screen is the inhabitation of this city because of its relation to time, in which each isolated space and its associated fiction has its own life span.
Table as site
The project argues for the idea to re-contextualize the table, to declare it as the locus for the unbuilt. However, in order to be able to create the site, we must first create its own narrative context, the book, separating it from site.
