Showing posts with label Concept Cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concept Cars. Show all posts

Monday, September 20, 2010

aperture & influence

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fisker artega gt

The elevational surface of the artega gt aligns itself as knowing other geometries that are emerging from current architectural discourse (or work thereof): it’s eye-like aperture on the side is similar to the ornamental moves recently employed by Esquivel in his La Riviera renovation geometries (theoremas blog link):

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At this point I contend that there are words/articulation needed to fully distinguish one aperture from another (as others certainly exist) wholly in and of itself, and not of a metaphorical rhetoric).

There is a specific move, where void makes a line, a delineation, about a surface, then invades or moves through the surface creating sub-surface expressed geometries in its wake; a moving void. In the same way there seems to be a movement about Esquivel’s work that entertains void objects about a surface, causing influences while not (in a similar move) ripping or destroying it’s plasticity.

Both discuss beauty in the most indiscrete way…perhaps this denies any true articulation to exist: they both leave the subject breathless.

la rivieria fabrication: link (I’ll post more of this incredible project as it comes online)

fisker automotive: link

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Levitation and the Literal

I was reading Wired News when I came across a hovercraft designed by Kazim Doku. Sure it’s a concept, and a very cool artifact (if it were to be produced), but the importance of such investigations are quite relevant to architectural discourse.

As we contemplate the emergence of a Wölfflin neo-Baroque period (even Jimenez Lai agreed with me in saying that we’re all acting like mannerist…) in which the painterly effect and levitation dominate our sensibilities, the act of literal levitation is quite compelling.

Imagine how would you design a building (or, well, anything) if gravity were not a real dominating force-

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Kinda brings out the Star Wars in all of us…

…and I don’t think the leather costume is included….Just a thought.

Images/Video are completely ripped off the Wired site, who ripped them off of Doku. Needless to say, none of the graphics are mine. Hope that clarifies all of it-