Alexandra Sonnemans
Architect
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Schiekade 189 - 403
3013 BR Rotterdam
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A research project on the scale 1:1, architectural representation on-site and the suggestion of space – on physical experience and imagination in architecture.
Within the city in transformation we find a wide range of real-scale representations, simulations and projections, that are used to (publicly) announce and debate future developments on-site. They are temporary - tangible - infrastructures, that appear on-site when the process of design is done and the first step towards building starts. Some of these real-scale outlines or moulds don’t reveal the whole appearance of the development to come, they only suggest it by giving a material presence to one certain aspect, e.g. materiality, surface, contour. Balancing between visible and invisible, they become a new experiential dimension of architecture in which we can recognise, imagine and create multiple interpretations of the new whole and to imagine its potential impact within the existing environment.
“How much do we actually need to imagine something? To complete a whole image from fragments? Where lies the fine balance between abstraction and detail – demonstration and imagination? How do present and future - existing and new - relate (collide, coincide) on-site?”
2019
Project by rotative studio (Alexandra Sonnemans & Caterina Viguera)