丨美国纽约

Ke Li

Los Angeles, CA, US

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This is a wired-shape and bright-color concert hall “floating” on east river( enter though the pier) in New York. It is a container of art and an art work of itself.

People can see the big entrance from distance, but they can never enter through there. People can read the windows, but they can never tell the story inside.

Taking up the role of opening dialogue, the exterior communicates with the interior through signs(entrances, windows...), which are important devices that serve as a transparent representation of the building. This thesis seeks to find how architecture would operate if it did not respond to the fear of needing to situate ourselves within it, of being ‘mute’. Through IN-Accessible, architecture can find a subverted way to communicate.

Where to set the doors makes the building elevation become a “cliche”. In kids’ drawings, a square plus the triangle rooftop, adding the rectangular door in the middle, window on the side. It is a house.

Also I can see the development of curtain wall would be a solution to avoid the cliche, it delete the cliche, builds the shining finish. But it also delete the beauty that created by the signs.

Decorated entrance sand, countless windows, clutter facades and drown out other messages in their incessant chatter. Perhaps they “talk too much” in this respect. When people listen to the building, what else might we hear?

I do have faith in the beautiful signs that exist on the buildings. Instead of deleting the“cliche talking”, I experiment the way making them talking “gibberish”. By deforming the traditional facades, and reforming them into the new facade. And eliminate the function, using the single color to mute them.

The golden roof indicate the curtain wall pointed up while the i industrial bottom pointed down, they were separate until the modernist arches “glued” them together.

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