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Replicas of replica
3| THE FICTION OF REPRESENTATION
Replicas of replica
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"Every architectural work is created on the principle that includes the meaning, and then this work is read like an artefact of the particular meaning. Resources by which the meaning is built primarily, susceptible to transformation, as well as routing of understanding (decoding) messages carried by a work of architecture, are subject of semiotics and communication theories, which have played a significant role for the architecture and the architect."
Genesis chapter eleven narrates the failed project of building a great city and offers the story of the Tower of Babel, the biblical version of the origins of linguistic variability. This story reflects a vivid awareness of the multiplicity of meanings contained within language and the movement of these meanings about the world (Darroch, 2010). The story of the aborted tower is linked to the varieties of human speech and the dispersion of idioms. The linguistic diversity is analogue to that of the typological objects present in the city. The tower is symbolic and symbolically place at the nucleus of the city. As the object of the organisation, it embodies the function of the city at multiple social, and transportation levels. The vertical development is an allegory to the tower of babel. “Linguistic variation stands in relation to the city, to its very foundation, and in essence to all its forms, is an ancient idea.”
Endeavours towards the construction of a city that could exceed the human conditions have never faded (Darroch, 2010). Therefore, through the creation of an artefact, the restrictions correlated to the research of the ideal city will be represented. The object of art is a replica of the restricted city. The three fictions will serve as sections plane and will dissect the cross-shape built form to investigate and attest to the modus of Operandi, definition, and ultimately the analogical representation. In reference to the city, the terms restrictive and restricted are used interchangeably to attest to the interdependency of force and cause in the discourse of the comprehension of the city and city planning.
3| FRAGMENTED PERSPECTIVE
linguistic expression of the tower block.
Exploitative models, where the concept of light was synonym of reson . The object of the city are simulcra of the Rational city.
3| FRAGMENTED PERSPECTIVE
Fictions.
Viewing the city through the fictions of history, reason, representation, is viewing enclosed openings of tangible and intangible past, present and future urban landscape. The City is free from spatial and organisational restrictions when its conceptual form, material, function are perceived as the language of expression of a transitional Architecture. The artifact per se, is enclosed in wooden boxes . The enclosures are metaphor for the fictions present in the restricted city.
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