Abiding Mundaneness: Abstraction As A Relationship
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WHAT
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Aldo Rossi The project aims to explore a sort of abstraction that is connected with mundaness, a state in between monumentality and mundaneness. Traditional academy as a carrier, the story is going to happen in a discarded factory. Factory, or industrial building is one of the products of mechanical civilization. Le Corbusier spoke highly of this in his book Toward an architecture: […] an architectural structure is a house, a temple or a factory. The surface of the temple or the factory is in most cases a wall with holes for doors and windows; these holes are often the destruction of form; they must be made an accentuation of form. Form follows function articulates the design logic behind mechanical age. Therefore, a factory is a machine; workers working in the factory are treated as machines as well, then where to place their soul? The Transformation of Old Factory is a declaration towards Functionalism WHY
Galerie Der Gegenwart, Expansion of Kunsthalle, Oswald Mathias Ungers “The new abstraction in architecture uses a rational geometry with clear and regular forms in both plan and elevation. In this context, the plan is the result not of the literal interpretation of functions and constructive conditions but of geometric systems. The latter are based on proportional relationships and coherent sequences, as was the case in the “modular system” of medieval architecture, the floor plans of Palladio, and the architectural theory of Durand.” Oswald Mathias Ungers, Aphorisms on Architecture When O. M. Ungers proposed the idea of “New Abstraction in Architecture”, he was looking forward to revive the fundamental concept of space, which is an abstract order conveying a constant quality. Pure form deriving from the basic type, the elementary building evokes people the collective sub-consciousness. The space defined only by geometry, proportion, the rules of number and relation strongly conveys people an eternal spiritual value. Function is trivial under this context. Function related with human scale, daily life is therefore isolated with space. O.M. Ungers believed people could still perform theatre in a factory, live in the church. However, the abstraction brought by purism existed as a constructivism in this way. The spiritual space that belongs to the collective representation brings people a sense of ritual, but has no relation to human body perception. Comparing with the primordial abstraction that beyond human beings, there must have existed another sort of abstraction related to our mundaneness. HOW
Kolnischer Kunstverein, O.M.Ungers 1.Mapping of Industrial cities in China to find ideal site, bathymetric information 2.Research statistics, plans, sections, and elevations of typical factory. 3.Study of Chinese traditional academy and find the prototype from substantial cases in history.( the prototype of form) 4.Research on modern education mode and find a space logic conforming 5.Study of structure and find the opportunity to intervene space and form. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Oswald Mathias Ungers, 2002, Oswald Mathias Ungers works and projects 1991-1998, Phaidon Press
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