Afar

“ An organism can only exist as an action. It exists as a form only when it has died. The architectural theories of the twentieth century were theories of form; that is, theories of corpse.”

Studies in Organic, Kengo Kuma p.60

The Conditions of the ‘Present’

This work attempts to surface the dynamics between the unpredictable forces (of life) and the construct of our own existence within this larger world.

To grow a spatial construct that can give body to that of no language, that of the invisible, that of the air, that of our living breath, that of our heartbeats, that of the state, that of life.

As such, it endeavors to serve simply as a medium to capture and surface the natural state of the ‘Present’ (The ‘present’ being the moment in time and those that are present at that moment). To surface the conditions at the same time to provide a condition for a new condition to arise. Therefore, these conditions could be a resultant of an interrerlated state of the performance: the performers, the audiences, the air, the sound, the light, the heat –  a breathing body of that state of atmosphere. To identify this state of atmosphere as a form of ‘weather condition’ which encompasses people at that moment in life.

The Form: The Construct of Space

The process attempts to search for a spatial construct which eschews solidity and permanence, of one that can encompass the organic becoming of a state.

Borrowing Kengo Kuma’s theory, this is a search for the body of an organism rather then that of a form. A spatial construct that is about relationships and interchangeable forces.

Therefore, it is a design of an open system of relationships and not an autonomous form.

The basic elements or DNA to form the structure of this organism consists of the three basic state of matter – solid, liquid, gas. It endeavors to encompass these three states as co-related bodies to form a whole, using the most basic elements in our life: ice, water, air to surface the conditions of the present in terms of their inherent Forces.