Ok well pragraph hmmmm. I have become increasingly interested in the fields of planning/urban design/architecture, in fact I might just do a Master of Planning Practice after Elam. So that is where my area if investigation is to be placed. Recently i have been especially drawn to the issues surrounding public spaces: the ways they are used, what constitutes a good/bad one, how/why/by whom they are constructed, and so on. I'm always really drawn to abandoned land, especially existing in the central city, where space is so sought after. Perhaps I shall pick an area like this and explore possibilities it may hold. I really want to do some watercolours, which relates to the subject anyway. Then probably progress onto some marquette/paper sculpture-y stuff and maybe public intervention-y things I've done in the past. Investegation into a specific place. Maybe.
Hey Anna here's a really cool group of architects who deal a lot with urban space in really inventive ways. Their site has really good diagrams of pre-planning schemes through to buit environments. A lot of their stuff doesnt get buit because it is too advanced for competion judges to belive. some of their modelling is really 'out there', definately not your average white cardbord contour stack - their lego towers reminded me of your brick pile drawing. I tried to 'bite their style' heaps last year and so did any other architecture and planning student who knew of them (luckily there wasnt many), because BIG are just too good. Here's the link:
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Your second photo reminds me of 'deconstruction' (theory?) . I was thinking also, you could think about constructing a space out of non-space or negative space- maybe it could kind of links to your engagement with abandoned land- making abandoned useful. I can also think of a student's project in this other art school, apparently, she was looking at a fish bone-particularly the negative space and did a architectural project around that.-sounded interesting. Rachel Whiteread- in terms of her usage of negative space.
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'folding space'-saw it at gordon harris.
it might have been called 'folded space'