SCI-Arc Fall 2013 Hernan Diaz Alonso with Ivan Bernal Studio

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Georgios Smyrlis

Traditional form of museums do not represent citizens, they represent capital, most of them either work as part of tourism's profit making strategies, or conserve a "colonial" statues quo logic of power imposition. "No sir or madam museum" tries to disrupt that problematic notion of corrupted museums' ideology. As a method of doing that is inspired by one of the most fresh and interesting moments of post-world war England, back in the mid-70's, when a small but quite dynamic group of people reestablished the role of music by introducing provocation, irony and anger through a straight forward mainly political oriented lyrics..Punk..

The form creation techniques used for the project were inspired by butchery meat carving and last but not least by the close study of Francis Bacon's techniques dealing with the notions of "athletic" flesh, imposition of fields, rhythm-spasm, mutation and animal "spirit".

The role of the museum is to provide a didactic space where people will be able to really engage with their higher inner self through meditation and disconnect from the highly materialist and anopheles reality. But since wisdom and knowledge require effort the museum is not aiming towards an "easy" engagement with the user. In order to enter the visitor has to ascend the artificial jungle-like back part.

Since the Victorian style of spaces arrangement does not fit in the "No sir or madam museum" circulation and ideology, the proposed spaces arrangement is the following:The top floors of the museum are functioning as Library and Lecture theater.The In between floors are exhibition spaces where a collection of nonconformist artifacts from local artists such as Banksy (graffity artist) and street artists are concentrated..The basement is the living space where kitchen and living "capsules" are located.

ANIMATION LINK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxiS3zTwaE0

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Hernan Diaz Alonso with Ivan Bernal

“You do an eclectic celebration of the dance! You do Fosse, Fosse, Fosse! You do Martha Graham, Martha Graham, Martha Graham! Or Twyla, Twyla, Twyla! Or Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd! Or Madonna, Madonna, Madonna!... but you keep it all inside.”

Robin Williams; “The Cage Bird”

The aspiration of the work is proposing to re-examine the possibilities of form generation as an autonomous entity trough the understanding of Rituals of butchery, carving, re assembling following the notion of the forms.

Most butchery techniques had the capacity to combine the power of raw mutilations with highly sophisticated formal understanding of organization, as well a saturated and excessive ornament in the instruments of rituals.

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The “interior” as a formal code forgoes the concept of a metamorphic body and instead creates mutants by stitching together parts from non-‐malicious bodies that have been classified as benign by local conditions.

The studio is interesting in exploring potential architectural expressions of a contemporary bio formal malaise. The symptoms are many are don't point to any single condition or cause, and we're working with just a few that interest us in particular.

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The studio will explore the predominant effect of this 'isomorphism' being the aggregation of diverse forms of design sequences into an almost universal condition of image production. Perhaps some might see this as a triumph of superficiality over depth, but it's certainly also an intensification of the conjectural and fictive logics of design. We see this as a real and complex demand that contemporary culture makes on producers of architectural content.