Maridia Kafetzopoulou The Crack in the Wall Diploma 9: Natasha Sandmeier, Manolis Stavrakakis The Crack in the Wall approaches architecture as an entity that does not sit in isolation, but rather holds the power of continuous transformation. The project addresses the architect as project, and we as architects never work in isolation. Buildings are designed and built as a series of fragments, referencing multiple scales and materials, with architects continually dealing with different scenarios. But what happens between those seemingly discontinuous moments?
Form and Performance – the object lies not in form, shape or idea but between the form and the performance.
Using the surrealist game of Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse), the project argues for an architecture that is constantly transforming itself to create new architectural readings. The architect uses the frame not to isolate but to incorporate that which sits outside to construct spatial continuity. Reconfiguring and unfolding, the project explores architecture as a medium of change as opposed to a static immovable object. With every move, architecture recreates itself, defeats its previous purpose and becomes something new. Perhaps a new fantasy, and definitely a new reality‌ The project is not a building; it is a manifesto about connectivity and assembly that uses architecture as a threshold as opposed to a terminus.