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Fig. 12.1 Raphae Memon Y5, ‘Tierwald: Berlin’s City-ArchitectScenographer’. The project is a landscape of buildings-aspublic-squares, deep in a constructed forest within Berlin’s Tiergarten. In the centre is the city-architect-scenographer, a yearly appointed artistic director of the city who coordinates the fragmented architectures so that they transform during the interstices between sunrise and sunset. The design facilitates scenographic proposals for the city, which are designed, built, tested, performed and stored. Light creates perceptive conditions of darkness and provokes scenographic occupations for the future. Fig 12.2 Iga Martynow Y4, ‘Museum for Dada Art’. The museum is located on the exact site of a 1920s exhibition. It plays on ideas of the nonsensical and absurd, recreating the original gallery as a labyrinth of
interconnected rooms, inhabiting the spaces between the white, superfluous grid. Fig. 12.3 Elin Soderberg Y4, ‘The New Friedrichshain Bank’. Addressing themes of financial speculation and time, the project positions itself within the recurring property cycle. Set within a geological and seasonal timescale, it discusses the possibility of a new model for slow banking. Fig. 12.4 Boon Yik Chung Y4, ‘Museum for 20th Century Arts’. A fix for Herzog & de Meuron’s botched attempt, the project employs creative strategies associated with artistic practice in the synthesis of idea and physical production of architecture, to create gallery spaces truly representative of 20th century arts: radical, humorous and subversive. The alternative proposal tests the limit of architecture as a creative practice, and personal and societal
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2017
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