MArch Architecture Unit 18
Year 4 Anthony D’Auria, Sing Sun (Ryan) Cheng, Juhyung (John) Chun, Anna Maria Janiak, Alan O’Connell, Mahmetcan Sisman, Anthanasios Varnavas Year 5 Adam Casey, Shao Jun (Susan) Fan, Anis Wan Kamaruddin, Alex Sanghwa Kim Saman Ziaie, phantom18.co.uk The Bartlett School of Architecture 2013
archaeological site, Adam Casey investigated cryptography as the shadow noise between digital scanning and its mistranslation into a fluid construction site. Ruined arches and underground ornamented caves ooze into a new language of luminescent resins and light effects. The emerging structure is a digital phantasmagoria of scanned archaeological ruins manifesting against the backdrop of desert storms and religious conflict. Recognition is exchanged for discovery, symbolism for vestiges and the architecture figures ground for a reincarnated landscape of ambiguous formations. Visitors of this park of sorts may meander through sluggish spaces of incomplete arches, ornamented columns, reflective ceilings in search for hidden meanings and revelations. Generational Phantoms is a think tank scrutinising the outcomes of digital interfaces in contentious territories. We speculate about the abnormal of ‘situation normal’ in war zones, divided geographies and contested territories reutilising the catalogue of beautiful monstrosities and the horrifically entertaining present in machine or human form. As spatial response the projects recreate what architecture can be in a world where the notion of the architect as a figure behind a desk is being substituted by an explorer of emerging environmental conditions. In this context cryptography is as much a digital design process as a protocol for socio-political engagement. Thank you to our external consultants: Sara Klomps, Rob Partridge, Ricardo Baptista, Ruairi Glynn, Christian Derix, Stephen Gage and Jason Slocombe. Thank you to our guest critics: Apostolos Despotidis, Ryan Dillon, Jeroen van Armeijde, Kostas Griqoriadis, Theodore Spyropoulos, Ruairi Glynn, Mollie Claypool, Theodore Sarantoglou Lalis, Marcos Cruz, Carles Sala, Tyen Masten, Brendon Carlin, Gilles Retsin, Filip Visnjic, Jose Sanchez, Christine Hawley, Alice Labourel, Tobias Klein and Robert Stuart-Smith.
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