The Unobserved Landscape in the Dirty House

寄件者 MArch_Term 02

Architectural Program

Following from previous studies, the blurred space is a space that exist both occurred and occurring trajectories of the moving object, and the place where time space overlapping between these two. The landscape that altered by the moving object as a phenomenological landscape is a space of event field, where the moment of the object oscillating the geometry and left behind a trace which consist the vectors of the particles, such as the ball that hit on the sand that makes a concave on the land and the sprayed sand particles that scattered around the bunker, the dusty landscape that reveal the event on the field.

The idea of bunker which is the space of the trace is an after effect of overlapping the time space trajectories which left on the landscape as a recollection of the field event, and the trace is part of the substance of the landscape and it continues overlapping, such as the foot print that might be stepped on twice, the trace itself is an second order phenomenological landscape, and it’s the nesting space between the gap.

In Hannah Holmes’s word, “every time you inhale, thousands upon thousands of dust particle swirl in your body”, the dust which described as a little bit of everything on the planet, the unobserved particles of materials that is covering and forming the unseen landscape around the object in the space. Dust is unavoidable and is the tiny substances that is sensitive and scattering all the time, the slow time matter of development that we couldn’t sense it through our human perception, but it is a drastic motion for particle itself of shifting in the micro scale.

While opening the door, the vibration of the door disturb dust falling from above, the dusted door handle we touch and scratch, the dust surface wipes off. While the door slightly opened, the light infiltrating into the house through the tiny seam of the door that sweeping the dust to a point cloud, the revealing of the moment of the event, the door opening, with projected shadow of the clouds, the volume light, and the occurring forms of phenomenological landscape, the falling dust). By looking into this, the dusted object that travels around the space spilling off particles and form a new dusty landscape, it’s a series of event related to vectors, speed, time, vibration, the factors that trigger the motion of dust particle, the trace of the event which is the dusty landscape.

The program of this project is to reclaim dust as a medium or material for amplifying the event field of a space by constructing the unseen landscape of an architectural space, a dirty house full of dusty landscape and dusted object.

Design Tactics

Following the previous study of the capturing the motion object, the tactics following up are 1.Collecting 2.Locating 3.Reconstruting

The Dusted door
The dusting door is a system of revealing the event that has been amplified with it’s actual and recorded trajectories of the object and the after effect that forms the dusty landscape, and the overlapping time space due to the daily usage of the architectural element, as an archeological doorway.

The Door handle:
The handle that traps the falling dust by the static electricity of the metallic materials, the dust then whip off when hands touch and left the trace on the surface, the handle is also the electricity generator by using the friction while turning, the trigger that turns on the door bell and the light above the entrance.

The Entrance Light:
The elements of emitting light particles for sweeping the dust falling and shimmering the particles as dust cloud, the projection of the dusted object and the man opening the door on to the floor as shadows.

The Door Bell:
The bell that informing the happening of the event, the metallic bell covered with fabric fiber that could collect the dust around the air. While the bell rings, the shell of the bell vibrates and shakes of the dust on the surface then falling to the ground, as a generator of the dust.

The Door:
The door that fixed with a small wheel underneath the panel, the wheel that scratched the floor which is covered with dust on the surface, the scratching event that wipes over the dusty landscape, the trace of the door movement superimposed with the shadows of the dust clouds, the moment when the hidden blurred space is exposed.