The Essence Show 2010 - Vienna
Mechanical Elegance Excessive
Excessive studio is a post-grad program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna <<die angewandte>>.
How boring has perfection become?
Every Year the program will focus on a specific topic that would provide means to the advance and mutation of the emerging paradigms of Aesthetics as the main vehicle for the evolution of the autonomy of the discipline. The studio proposes to re-examine the possibilities of form generation as an autonomous entity. In the context of these conditions, the studio will focus in the generation and production of mutant micro behaviours that will accumulate to create species from systems.
Type
Cathedral of Vienna Masters Thesis Project
Year
2010
Supervisor
Hernan Diaz Alonso
Location
Vienna,
Austria
La Biennale di Venezia / 12th International Exhibition of Architecture 2010 - Venice
Mechanical Elegance
University of Applied Arts Vienna <<die angewandte>>
Excessive Post-grad Programme
The main idea of the project is to evaluate religion as a mystic power that occurs at the event of horrific. It gathers people, creates social interactions and conversions. In this case the cathedral is designed with the idea of a “religious campus” that serves as a public space.
It is mechanical and elegant at the same time with the light effects that change between day and night. The aesthetic agenda creates an atmosphere which tries to answer the question “what is the representation of holy?”
The traditional plan of a cathedral is transformed into a vertical system. The vertical circulation system which replaces the naves, is connected to the main spaces of the tower.
Since gothic fiction and its subculture is one of the main topics of the course,the project attempts to connect the ideas of gothic and the ruin by its structural system which is in the limit of collapsing.
