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Institut für Kunst und Architektur
Masterstudium; Architektur
Betreuung: Stiefel, Hannes
The Shape of Time—Towards a Crypto-Architecture,
2018
Abschlussjahr: 2018
A phenomenological shortfilm
Animation
16:07 min
Animation
16:07 min
The project explores the vision of nature, understanding the concept of architecture as a cultural expression of compressed light, energy and matter at a specific place for a certain moment in time.
The Via Mala Canyon in Switzerland will work as a case study site for this speculative investigation. The location's amount of cultural events and historic descriptions transform it into a great chance to rethink the ideologies and principles of landscape representation in a prospective language. The examination of landscape painting, landscape photography, and sculptural interventions of the land art movement in the 1960s establishes a departure point to study the construction and deconstruction of landscape and therefore question the future relationship between observer, apparatus, and landscape, as well as their identities.
During a field trip, the site was mapped in a "cinematic drone performance," a mimetic process that creates virtual models of reality. Following the definition of Jean Baudrillard, who describes those models as "simulacra," they help investigate how nature is observed, studied and synthesized in the digital realm to understand the coexistence of landscape and the architecture embedded within. As the term "landscape" always refers to a fusion of natural environment and artificial construction, three different archetypes of infrastructure that occur on the site are spotlighted: the bridge, the tunnel, and the dam. Using the moving image as medium of narration, they are visited and described by the camera in three episodes. While the eye tries to construct reality, using the landscape as a mirror of human existence, the machine is re-purposing the landscape through new modes of visual synthesis, capturing sensitive nuances of reality beyond human senses. In the end, the virtual eye is showing an unseen view of a world where the real blends with the imaginary—a universe of thickened time, hypostatized in space—a crypto-architecture.
The Via Mala Canyon in Switzerland will work as a case study site for this speculative investigation. The location's amount of cultural events and historic descriptions transform it into a great chance to rethink the ideologies and principles of landscape representation in a prospective language. The examination of landscape painting, landscape photography, and sculptural interventions of the land art movement in the 1960s establishes a departure point to study the construction and deconstruction of landscape and therefore question the future relationship between observer, apparatus, and landscape, as well as their identities.
During a field trip, the site was mapped in a "cinematic drone performance," a mimetic process that creates virtual models of reality. Following the definition of Jean Baudrillard, who describes those models as "simulacra," they help investigate how nature is observed, studied and synthesized in the digital realm to understand the coexistence of landscape and the architecture embedded within. As the term "landscape" always refers to a fusion of natural environment and artificial construction, three different archetypes of infrastructure that occur on the site are spotlighted: the bridge, the tunnel, and the dam. Using the moving image as medium of narration, they are visited and described by the camera in three episodes. While the eye tries to construct reality, using the landscape as a mirror of human existence, the machine is re-purposing the landscape through new modes of visual synthesis, capturing sensitive nuances of reality beyond human senses. In the end, the virtual eye is showing an unseen view of a world where the real blends with the imaginary—a universe of thickened time, hypostatized in space—a crypto-architecture.