Winter Studio 2015: Dökhaut – landstation
The act of space making finds itself in a world in which environments – whether ephemeral, temporal, or behavioral reconfigure themselves with blurring effects. Reflexion, as an active operational force, has two capabilities that are supposed to be mutually exclusive – complicating and veiling our clear view. As a result, a collapse of content may occur yielding a greater relevance, or even a completely unexpected understanding of the context. Architecture is hardly a static object that exists in isolation and against it’s environment, but is a responsive agent, which affects, and is affected by material and immaterial circumstances.
The title, DökHaut, refers to that experience of light and sound that is expansive and deep which dissolves and imperceptibly retreats from the user, but at the same time within the hollow void, it is the captured nothingness that becomes precious. There is a dialectic between the immediate intimate physicality of the terrain and the vast intangibility of personal isolation of the user. Seeking to reverse the role of interiority where the self is defined as an extension of the object, and thus identifies with the subject of the architecture. The title evokes the idea of an “empty” moment, something that has neither foundation nor substance.
DökHaut the Winter Landstation is part of a larger investigation on the systems in architecture that respond to the ephemeral qualities of behavioral territories.
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