“The city will be open. Come on in, go anywhere! Live where you will! (...) The city will have special places. Many of these will be incomprehensible to many.� (Michael Sorkin)
IV.Votanikos room
"Beautiful as the chance encounter of a toilet paper factory and a bunch of dogs in an army base"
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“Stop beautifying and decorating the city!� (Peter Noever)
Plan of the room
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Original buildings Site described interventions conditions
Small transformations processes animations
Matrix I.
Drawings of people
Abandoned catalogue
Model of transormed Votanikos
Animations of tendencies Abandoned catalogue Site material Human kit catalogue Toll kit Votanikos diary movie a route through the site
Site after Site before hammering projected transformations
Site map Site material
Matrix II.
Light I.
Human kit catalogue
Overall transformation process animation
Votanikos diary tendencies of function
Transformed buildings Described “functions�
The Post Mall in function a field for encounters
The Post Mall image
Light II.
Elevation
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Abandoned catalogue
Original buildings Tool kit described interventions
Site conditions
Human kit catalogue
Animations of tendencies
Site map Site material
Votanikos diary movie a route through the site
Votanikos diary tendencies of function
Small transformations processes animations Model of transformed Votanikos
Site before Hammering projected
Site after transformations
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Abandoned catalogue
Drawings of people
Votanikos diary movie a route through the site Animations of tendencies Matrix I.
Site map Site material
Human kit catalogue
Votanikos diary tendencies of function
Dog Tool kit
Human kit catalogue
Abandoned catalogue
Site material
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Votanikos diary movie a route through the site
Matrix I.
Site conditions
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Tool kit Original buildings described interventions
Site conditions
Small transformations processesanimations Site before Hammering projected
Site after transformations
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Small transformations processes animations
Model of transormed Votanikos
Overall transformation process animation
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Matrix II.
Overall transformation process animation
Model of transormed Votanikos
Transformed The Post Mall buildings image Described “functions”
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The Post Mall in function
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A field for encounters For exchanges of ideas
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This project would be different without Linda (LCJ), the 14’’ trout, Winkiii, Linda, Mush, Camila, Mate, The candle bouncer, Nicholas, D.P., Linda, the pink diamond, Colin, Tal, Dragging to Ireland, Robi, A.D.P., Wybma, Mongy, My P.S.-Le Carr, The combination clown.
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Jean Baudrillard: Cultura y simulacro, Editorial Kair贸s, Barcelona, 1978 Gloria Moure: Gordon Matta-Clark Works and selected writings, Ediciones Poligrafa, 2006 Stephen Walker: Gordon Matta-Clark art, architecture and the attack of modernism, I.B. Tauris, New York, 2010 Peter Noever: Urban Future Manifestos, Hatje Cantz, Viena, 2010 John Hejduk: Such places as memory, The Mitt Press, Cambridge, 1998 Andrew Hodges: A-Z of plastic surgery, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008 Jean Baudrillard: Forget Foucault & Forget Baudrillard, Semiotext, New York, 1987 Maurice Blanchot: The Unavowable Community, Station hill, London, 1998 Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Penguin, London, 2008 Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle, Black & Red,U.S., New York, 1984 Merlin Coverley: Psychogeography, Pocket essential, London, 2010 Adrian Atkinson: After Chernobyl : a safe and efficient energy strategy for the South East, SEEDS Association, London, 1987 Maurice Marlau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, Routledge, 2003 Jean Paul Sartre: Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, Routledge Classics, New York, 2004
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images from external sources
p. 108 http://netbuzz.bloguez.com/netbuzz/2732523/chernobyl-disaster
p. 108 - 109 http://spad1.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/eyewitness-the-bombing-of-dresden-14-february-1945/
The rest of the images in this document are my own.
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Rooms, places of non-definition
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“Planning and chance almost seem to be the same thing.� (Robert Smithson)
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Andi Schmied, 2012, London