S P O L I A
A modular construction that relies on the technology of the brick to produce a multi-scalar form due to its inherent properties of structural rigidity and practical assembly. The proposal takes the form of a dynamic Tetris-like wall with an opening at its centre for individuals to inhabit, walk through, sit and experience. Reclaimed bricks from the yard are carefully stacked in pairs, one pair on top of another alternating at 90 degree orientation to create a crated stack-effect. This assembly method will dapple light and facilitate air flow in the sunken recessed space. Visitors will witness the versatility, resilience and reuse of a humble building block to form a sculptural wall.
The proposal takes it’s inspiration from an art piece exhibited at the Tate Modern, ‘Poem of Nine Verses’ by Saloua Raouda Choucair from Lebanon. The art piece is a sculptural poem of interlocking forms that can be rearranged in various formations. Inspired by Sufi poetry and Islamic and Modernist Architecture, each sculptural block can stand alone like a verse in a poem, but also forms a unified structure. In creating this work, Choucair ‘wanted rhythm like poetic meter, to be at once more independent and interlinked and to have lines like meanings.’
