MARS ARCHITECTURES, 1
1. Architecture is always born from the constraints of function, site, budget and so on. These constraints are both its matrix and set its limits.
2. But often the actual quality of the resulting Architectural space or Geometry has little to do with the original function it is born to shelter. This is how you can literally find hidden underground utilities spaces looking like cathedrals – and the opposite.
3. Even more so as, during time, functions tend to become irrelevant and the same building can come to express a totally different reality.
Hence the drawings of the series MARS ARCHITECTURES. They ignore a couple of hundreds of years and a few million miles and go visit cities on Mars, to see what their Architecture/ Geometry, born from necessities totally beyond our imagination, may look like.
EMPTY SPACES
...The effect of the Mars landscape is one of deep relief. It balances the immediate world, so saturated with stuff, that most westerners experience in the 21st century. The
humanity has been starting to suspect already that the place it takes on Earth is becoming dangerously prominent. The very sight of a place out of its reach (although abandoned packages and other spaceship scrap is already littering some areas) brings one back to the mythic times when our own planet was clean, infinite and its resources endless.
For architects, more than on anyone else, the relief effect may be even deeper. For anyone involved with the built environment the idea that its absolute opposite, a place free of anything, exists somehow in the range of our perception can only be refreshing.
Oh my God what a place to build something.
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