In yesteday's post we looked at sensorial spaces; today let's continue the “space” thread and look at a different spatial concept with the help of an installation at the Hungarian Pavilion.
Curated by Balint Bachmann and designed by Balazs Marko, the installation at the Hungarian Pavilion features 500 models made by students from all over Hungary and the neighbouring countries. The idea of opening a national pavilion to a larger group of people coming from different places is definitely not new, since it was already applied by other pavilions at different art and architecture biennale events, but it has proved as quite successful especially in our global and cosmopolitan times.
The concept behind this installation is creating a forest of models, conceiving the latter as symbols of complexity or as materialisations (in space) of the architectural thought.
The structures are immersed in a silent and aseptic environment (only the last few models in the exhibition are an explosion of colours) that hints at clean architectural lines and at sacredness.
The 500 models showcased all together also hint at collaborating, cooperating and communicating with other studios and teams, while the title of the installation - Spacemaker - comes from the idea of "creating" space and freely playing with it.
If you're not an architect but a visitor interested in all things visual, you will find some of these models very interesting from the point of view of shapes and silhouettes.
Just by looking at some of these structures, you easily realise that it would be impossible to actually live in some of them as they do not provide any shelter, but in some cases they look like sculptures or works of art, while their shapes hint at abstract forms and extreme futurism, two trends that in the last few years have prevailed not only in architecture (think about Zaha Hadid), but also in art and fashion.
Some of these models are driven by fantasy and imagination and could be easily used as the settings for a sci-fi film with their fingers pointing towards the sky or spherical elements, spikes and spires creating complex geometrical - and at times surreal - forms; others could be instead employed not only as the starting points for the textures of clothes, but also as the inspiration for the structure of specific accessories.
If the architectural thought turned architectural model would be used in such applications, it would not only materialise to occupy a space, but could also be transformed into something else with a completely different purpose from the one it was originally designed for.
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You just have to admire the creativity show in all of these work, you just have to. What a great job you guys have done on this work of art. Thank for giving us the opportunity to appreciate such a beauty.
Posted by: Zentai | October 06, 2012 at 04:05 PM
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Posted by: architect springfield mo | March 08, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Wow! The potential of these models! This is how architecture and architects live on.
Posted by: Karen Horsham | May 17, 2013 at 04:14 PM