Studio 36
Requiem
SEVERAL PARTLY HABITABLE SPACES FOR IDLE COGITATION
Holly Xie
Studio Description
The studio concentrates on the critical examination of site to explore landscape and the built environment through a pilgrimage of small scale interventions – spaces for thought.
Rather than pacing for religious purposes, pilgrimage in the context of this studio is a way to incite idle contemplation that oscillates between reverie and an awareness of that which is the panorama of the built and natural.
Students will propose a pacing itinerary: a sequence of meditative activities that comprise the way stations of a pilgrimage, and identify and respond to elemental forms, seasonal conditions, and fundamental site relationships that propel each intervention.
Scrutinising site as palimpsest, rigorous practices of mapping and casting at macro and micro scales will facilitate the pursuit and manifestation of contextual understandings, speculations and inventions.
We will research geographical representation, such as romanticised nineteenth century biogeography and infographics, contemporary explorations of quantitative documentation and qualitative notation, demonstrated in the works of Jorinde Voigt, as well as site responsive architecture, including Enric Miralles’ Cimitero di Igualada, Tomba Brion by Carlo Scarpa and Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands. In addition, the studio will explore the eighteenth century fascination with the Sublime, examine the spectacle/spectator relationship of tourism, the Grand Tour, and analyse pilgrimage typologies.
TRAVEL Week 2 | $0
ST1/36 Monday 6:15-9:15PM in Room 139
ST2/36 Thursday 9AM-12 in Room 139