Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Where To Get Waxed In Charlston



2_01
The place has been around for over 30 years forgotten. It is a land of considerable size, among populations of colorful tattered closings as fences and corroded tin sheds. A clump of trees, a street to a park in the middle, the edges are coming. Its proximity to downtown means that there is heavy traffic in terms of self and pedestrian. The traces of a permanent transit have been stamped in place, marking a cross-shaped path. In the evenings the setting sun makes a strong, crossing in its entirety, on its longest side.
is strange atmosphere here is locked, if I could forget about the traffic (and a couple of things), maybe I could find where the more I'd rather be: in the middle of nowhere.



2_02
"... one of the core problems of any context (landscape, urban or architectural) is the content. To be effective, my work must be disconnected it already contains the site. One way to add to an existing context and, therefore, to modify its content, is to analyze and assimilate specific environmental components: border, borders, buildings, trails, streets, all the features of the environment. The place is redefined but not re-presents ... "
[1] Richard Serra.











2_03
Maybe, this reading, to imagine the possibility that encloses the construction of a perimeter that, installed in the manner of the "bodies of Serra" redefine your environment, placing value on an existing landscape.
All this has reminded me of the farm buildings photographed by Bernd and Hilla Becher, something similar happens to observe their "typologies."










2_04
always been called "an exceedingly-my attention: Drinking water, silos and mills. I think what attracts me is their attitude, how they show a side of the road. Silent and absorbed giants do not seem to pursue more claims. Dumb compared to an environment that although it seems alien to its nature, also seems to have been triggered by his presence.
This willingness to "be themselves", provides a dazzling clarity in its external reading. Subject to find meaning or beauty, if you think that all his work, lies in a volume of air lock, build an inner-which is nothing more that the emptying of its forms ...
Some of this is what I'm looking for.










2_05

But ... How do you build a "silo" that aims to be the closure of a sport fields?
The issue seems to be a problem of transparency. Perhaps, what is needed is the construction of a volume is not completely opaque. Body but rather a blur, allowing content and ensure its environment. Maybe, just enough offal a landscape, as happens in some drawings and prints by David Hockney. Perhaps there is an average.











2_06
Taking into consideration the content of the site is defined an elliptical path, spread over one of the diagonals of the field, which allows registration of a sport fields (26.0 x 14.0 m.).
About this track stands a continuous closure, generated from a construction of homogeneous folds 90 degrees plus a continuous embedding of 0.6m., Which enables self-bracket of an electro-welded mesh ACMA (5.00 x 2.60m.), thus forming a thick monotonous structure. On this first closing
structural raschell installed a mesh, from 0.15m. up to 4.3m. high (top), setting a profile L that goes through all the interior points of the mesh ACMA, building a tight, continuous ring allows filtering the light, giving a certain degree of opacity.
addition to the above are built around boxes of flooring, tile-drawn lines, which together with dial access and water bowl, set the elliptical path of closure to the perimeter of the site.
Finally, a red mark on the ground that, as a path of court, delimits a field of action, defining a perimeter with a thickness of 3.00m, which announces a field, as a sign of celebration.































































2_07
All this effort, will perhaps make to this end sought by the community, a place that "expanding the public mind" as we say Smiljan Radic for the project "Court in Culiprán" find a reason:

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