The concept of Phenomenology in our sculpture pavilion project.
Phenomenology in simpler word is the study of essences, such essences are actually responsible for giving us the "effect" that we can often feel when we enter a space or a setting. Such effect mentioned in the previous reading was the sublime, which translated into a concept of a "delightful horror", such as the joy from surviving from a near-death experience for instance. The interesting aspect of the similar idea of phenomenology can be seen in the work of the architect; Alexander Brodsky's ice pavilion, where he uses the existing surrounding to his advantage by creating the walls of the building from the frozen water of the lake in which the pavilion was located on. This made his pavilion much more interesting as he had "surrendered" to the surrounding while most building tried to withstand the natural forces. As a result his ice pavilion has many appearances as the ice on the wall keep on melting according to the weather and the amount of heat dissipated from the bodies of the customers, thus, not only that Brodsky has found a way for his building to exist in harmony with the environment, he also added an ever-changing facades and an ephemeral quality which, overall, gives us even more impact.
Most architects would have to adapt their buildings to the context of the site to some level, in a functional term, however, the concept of "surrendering" to the environment is hardly ever discussed and is a much more conceptual and abstract topic. Thus, we were encourage to further investigate into our pavilion project, where we have to design a pavilion to house 10 sculptures in a given site, my site is located at parc paragon, an empty space that lies in between Siam center and Siam Paragon shopping mall in central Bangkok. My concept of the journey through the exhibition talks about human's greed and selfishness in contrast to the fact that we are still relying in nature and that we should be able to realize this and start looking into ourselves to find our flaws, as a result, we will eventually learn to care more about others and hopefully become less selfish. There are many aspect of my pavilion that sort of reminded me of the "sublime" effect, although not entirely, this similar idea could definitely be applied or emphasize in future works for the more "full-on" impact. One of the main features of my design is that the external wall of my pavilion is all louvers, however, they are aligned to follow the curves of the building, which was inspired by the circulation of the pedestrians. Moreover, these louvers are not open at the same angle, the ones at both ends of the pavilion would opened up to the outside, while moving inward, more into the exhibition, the louvers gradually become closer in the space between each other and also the angle is more enclosed. This effect is thought put to be in accordance to the order of the display sculptures, where the most enclosed space would be for the sculpture that about selfishness, this expressed the nature that we all have this side, but often try to cover and hide it. using the louvers also give the effect of repetition, and at some angle inside, it looks as if the louvers is infinite. Thus, this passively suggest the idea of the sublime that can be adapted or emphasis in future works. Furthermore, as I mentioned before, the louvers are not spaced in a regular spacing, but they become denser and denser. The spacing around the entrances area are large enough for people to walk through , hence this was done on purpose and I didn't want to interrupt the flow of circulation in the area too much but still encourage people to experience the architecture. The idea is that, people would walked through/across the pavilion without much struggle, however, they will arrived in the interior space at a point, which is sort of like a carved out space that is enclosed by the aligned louvers, such encounter would be a little unexpected and thus, this gives a chance for the sculptures to seduce the passerby's attention . Hence, the audience, can choose to venture into the unknown space, so close and connected to the outside, yet through the separation of the thin louvers, became another strange, alluring new space, or of course, they can walked straight out and get on with their businesses if they choose to. More over despite the organic free form of the pavilion, the form was actually inspired by the way people move across the site. Thus, I see this as a passive attempt to blend in and somewhat, surrendered to the existing environment/condition of the give site. By no means, that I'm confident that I'm doing all of these things for the "impact" or "effect" or the "sublime", nevertheless, this is what I can extracted from my existing pavilion which was designed prior to the time where the concept of "phenomenology" was introduced during the theory class.
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