…Cloud thread continued
May 20th Landscape of Clouds also got me thinking about the studio with a great title that I never took either.
This post is starting from “transient, vicious, ominous & beautiful” (urban) cloud.
Sometimes, in an urban context, the clouds are of the few elements of the natural landscape that remains for us to bring to a project. (It´s not often you can´t find a piece of sky out of the window).
Despite risk of reductionism, or missing the point about ´tacit architecture´ (as oulined in the Landscape of Clouds), this post presents a short story of a journey from one side of a window to the other via company analysis statistics, Shakespeare, to an Argentenian artist in MACBA, to staring out the window (I need more skylights too, Dan), and finally back to two clouds one abstract and static, one transient and moving: in fact - already disappeared from view.
The client was Neometrics, specialists in analytic intelligence. They are based in Madrid, and required a new office fitout in Barcelona (“Analyze to decide. Decide to Create Value” )
(1) Data analysis language: A diagram that explains social network analysis (2) Gego at MACBA, January 2007.
The architects were Calderon-Folch Arquitectes and the project is travesura 2. The fitout is finished and remaining is this big, long, blank wall… from the door to the window…
What could happen between the door and the window?
What is already happening on the other side of the window?
An idea began simply with some movement. An increase in density of lines, or form, or something on the wall as it reaches for the light from the window.
Arriving at the window it meets the landscape and chooses one element, to mirror, echoe, abstract and reinterpret. The window became the interface where reality became stylised form…
Enter Hamlet & Polonius, stage right:
The job progressed in a couple of quick sporadic jumps, between other things in the office.
Until a 1:1 test piece was produced: 1.5mm galvanized wire, heat straightened, soldered, and/or bent at the junctions, and then the production of a 10 metre long, silver lined cloud began.
Finally it´s a beautiful piece of sky on the inside of the window. And a nice way to learn that every cloud has a silver lining.
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