It‘s about designing in the present with the past for the future. By being able to create narratives with the existing architecture for the future, we transform history, we keep it alive and let it develop further. This project is the concept of a collection which, through assemblages, develops into an apparatus that produces narratives.
It is a theoretical as well as a design project, which is based on an artistic, conceptual work, so that there is no claim to feasibility. The concept of a collection is the focus of the master‘s thesis and can then be continued. An utilisation of the collection is not part of the work. It must also be pointed out that a collection is a methodology of many possible – but this one enables me to gain access to the architectural thinking of today. An approach to our contemporary architecture, which has never been so pluralistic in its understanding of what architecture is or can be.
For centuries, the assemblage has repeatedly formed the basis of contemporary architecture in different cultures by acting as a development from the past into a future. This is exactly what makes assembling relevant today. Because building has to break away from the modern dogma of building. In other words, something new can arise from a recombination of what is known. It‘s not just about the sensitive handling of material, but also about our forms and motifs.
The theory of the project asserts that the gathering of existing architectural elements generates an expression of the current – our present society. Therefore my collection takes on social references and can then react to architectural questions or sociocultural conditions. Since my notion of architecture’s responsibility is that it must be an expression of the current to be able to become part of social change.
I understand architecture as communication, which can react with the help of ornamental strategies as an architectural approach. This is not about Form Follows Function, as it was misunderstood, but about Form Follows Fiction. So it is not the architectural effects of the functions which are of interest, but the architectural envelope as a medium. As a medium for our current narratives that enrich and enhance our world.
APPARAT – OBJECT OUT OF OBJECTS
A concept of a collection is being drawn up; a concept that creates an apparatus by collecting and assembling existing architectural elements, which in turn generates narratives. These enable us to continue telling our world – ultimately to further transform and further design. The work is the creation process of this apparatus and thus the concept of a collection.
The architecture of an object made up of objects without context in the sense of location, program and space is created. In the creation process, the understanding of context lies in the narration of the individual architectural elements in their neighbourhoods. This means that context does not have a functional, but a fictional assignment. Artificial contexts arise through collecting and assembling – in the apparatus.
This apparatus makes the narratives and relationships visible and keeps them accessible. In this way, narratives can be detached, pulled out or transformed – the apparatus can be expanded and changed. One can say, the result of the work, the apparatus – in and out of the concept of a collection, is the basis of my architectural work. Work in which the present can be used to design the future with the past.
