The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, established in 1603 with Galileo as chair, is relocated to the City of London to provide a new education system to tackle the Square Mile’s lack of moral purpose.
The Academy is a monochrome mass of libraries and ritualistic lecture spaces set in a landscape to induce physical and metaphysical wandering, meeting and reflection. Three environments are provided, inspired by the core natural elements of mountain for isolation and reflection, river for wandering and activity, and valley for gathering. These contours do not form boundaries, instead the frame of each drawing is continually broken, perforated and torn as if the tracing paper itself was insignificant. The intensity of detailing and material make the drawings difficult, if not impossible to replicate, and deliberately so, in rejection of modern computation.
Collage in a modernist manifestation — grounded in an overly …show more content…
These areas of hatch are open to interpretation, with few defined ‘knowns’ and can only truly be achieved through experimentation. Imperfections are not seen as failure, but as a balance between harmony in a composition and an ever-improving technique. This speculative method creates ink drawings based upon enlarged pre-drawn pencil lines, hatches and unfinished details, which are then scanned and collaged, to permit new discoveries.
The hatch exhibits a contradictory position concerning its inception for manual skill and judgement is still required, and is formed using a variety of methods including: layering, distortion, and blurring. These hatching methods develop inconsistencies, and unlike drawn ink, typically exhibit no traces of the individual, with an epic sense of scale and plasticity that echoes the Baroque. The hatch itself becomes stronger than the
The Academy is a monochrome mass of libraries and ritualistic lecture spaces set in a landscape to induce physical and metaphysical wandering, meeting and reflection. Three environments are provided, inspired by the core natural elements of mountain for isolation and reflection, river for wandering and activity, and valley for gathering. These contours do not form boundaries, instead the frame of each drawing is continually broken, perforated and torn as if the tracing paper itself was insignificant. The intensity of detailing and material make the drawings difficult, if not impossible to replicate, and deliberately so, in rejection of modern computation.
Collage in a modernist manifestation — grounded in an overly …show more content…
These areas of hatch are open to interpretation, with few defined ‘knowns’ and can only truly be achieved through experimentation. Imperfections are not seen as failure, but as a balance between harmony in a composition and an ever-improving technique. This speculative method creates ink drawings based upon enlarged pre-drawn pencil lines, hatches and unfinished details, which are then scanned and collaged, to permit new discoveries.
The hatch exhibits a contradictory position concerning its inception for manual skill and judgement is still required, and is formed using a variety of methods including: layering, distortion, and blurring. These hatching methods develop inconsistencies, and unlike drawn ink, typically exhibit no traces of the individual, with an epic sense of scale and plasticity that echoes the Baroque. The hatch itself becomes stronger than the