The Void: A Blank City of Walls
This project is interested in reducing the city to its absolute essence; its dimensions. The proposal is for a new, experimental cinema-city that express suggestions of a city. The project comprise of walls that exist as grid, framework, guide, and opportunity. The dimensions form a skeleton that weaves itself into a network of streets, which interlace the city and organize it. This new city functions as a cinema city of green screens (an image making machine). It has no need for details nor formal architectural embellishments as its opportunities lie in its blankness.
Site Location: Canary Wharf, London, UK
Status: Academic Project
Architectural Association, School of Architecture
2012-2013
Unit Masters: Miraj Ahmed & Martin Jameson
In its occupation, the poetry of its nothingness is reduced into a mere backdrop and machine, to which an indefinite amount architectural images such as the suburbs, the city-scape, the open landscape, and others, may be projected onto in films and photographs.
Initial studiesfor this project includes the gathering of street dimensions. Particularly on what frames a junction, the logic of urban frameworks, length of streets, heights of buildings and its surroundings.
The project’s two catalyst was Runa Islam’s art installation Stare Out (Blink), 1998 and the architecture of Sir John Soane Museum in London. A building that was once Soane’s own dwelling, the museum is a precedent of an existing building which host a panoply of different worlds. This was achieved through the arrangement of its circulation, the different elemental embellishments for each room, Soane’s use of the concave mirrors to duplicate and bleed the views from one room to the other, and many more.
