Mapping London

Last year I was working on a project of Jack the Ripper but I didnt have the time to continue it and take it to the level I wanted, so I thought that I could re-visiting the theme of Jack the Ripper. I took a walk in Whitechapel where the murders took place, I did some sketches and took many pictures of the area. 

In my sketchbook I used old maps of London of the Ripper's time and new ones. I worked with layers and overlapped the old buildings with the new ones, I made a journey tracking down the clues that uncover the mystery of the Ripper.

I looked at things through a specific perspective, through the lens of a detective. As the story is fragmented and essentially unsolved or has various solutions the maps extend in different journeys and through different media and look destroyed or fragmented. 

                                                                                                           Clodagh Emoe (The Approach, 2006)

Influenced by Clodagh Emoe, I decided to make a board with Jack's letters. I used inks to give it a destroyed look. What if there was a hidden code behind his letters..? 

Invisible pathways. Only the shadows show what happened, Jack is invisible no one ever saw him, he never got caught. Etheral, transparent and non-existent.. The myth.

I burnt the foam as each time he committed a crime, his soul was burnt just a little bit more, bringing him closer to becoming a monster and losing his humanity. These "scars" were invisible as presumably in his everyday life, he was a person who nobody suspected of being the Ripper.

Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion by Snohetta Oslo AS

This amazing pavilion is located at Hjerkinn on the outskirts of Dovrefjell National Park, overlooking the Snohetta mountain massif. It is open to the public and serves as an observation pavilion for the Wild Reindeer Foundation educational programs. 

The landscape has formed the basis of the architectural idea. The building design is based on a rigid outer shell and an organic inner core. The south facing exterior wall and the interior create a protected and warm gathering place, while it offers a spectacular panorama.

The simple form and use of natural materials reference local building traditions. But they still have used advanced technologies both in the design and in the fabrication process.

    

nonLin/Lin Pavilion- is a prototype which engages in a series of architectural experiments referred to as text based morphologies. Beyond its visual perception of sculptural and formal qualities, the prototypes are built forms developed through custom computational protocols. The parameters of these protocols are based on form finding (surface relaxation), form description (composition of developable linear elements), information modeling (re-assembly data), generational hierarchy (distributed networks), and digital fabrication (logistic of production).

From a Fiction of Precision back to a Fantasy of its Re-appropriation

The project is conceived as a resultant product of a very explicit research line, investigating the design and build component of a coherent environment.  It is considered to be self-supporting and to affect its participants, while engaging basic notions of limitation, filtration, and spatial depth. The structure is forming an eccentric universe where familiar elements such as openings or dimensional measurements turn out of model or scale. This visual phenomenon is allowing spectators to suspend disbelief while assigning cultural references or analogies from nature (corals, flowers) – yet nonLin/Lin Pavilion is only a very precise experiment towards constructability within a precise economical and cultural context.

Overall Dimension:
10.1 m length, 7.15m width, 3.9m height 

Cloud Cities by Tomas Saraceno

Artist Tomas Saraceno has created the Cloud Cities installation, which is currently on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, Germany.

Another Mapping project focused on the V&A Medieval & Renaissance section. Combined shots of a panoramic view of the interior and close ups of the most interesting sculptures.

Inspiration Comes From Within

  

Shelton House 

by 

Intentionallies

   

      Invaders Stairs  

  

   

                                                                                                                             St.Louis City Museum
                                                                                                                                 Seven Story Slide

    Curtain Door 

  by

 Matharoo Associates

Wooden Staircase

Mapping a Book: I cut out the pages to create an artistic effect of what I thought was most interesting in the book.