Playground Daydream - 2017-12-20 Hand-drafted Pen and Pencil Crayon - 13.5” x 19” Playground Daydream is a surrealist structure that combines waterpark slides with climbing walls and netted mech jungle gyms. The geometry of the slides inspired by the 90-degree curved connections of pipework. The result is a fantastical folly that defies gravity creating a complete imaginary world of pure play. The piece is a child-like interpretation of the ultimate playground utopia.
Playground Daydream - 2017-12-20 Hand-drafted Pen and Pencil Crayon - 13.5” x 19” Playground Daydream is a surrealist structure that combines waterpark slides with climbing walls and netted mech jungle gyms. The geometry of the slides inspired by the 90-degree curved connections of pipework. The result is a fantastical folly that defies gravity creating a complete imaginary world of pure play. The piece is a child-like interpretation of the ultimate playground utopia.
ASAU OTTAWA
EXERCISE 1
THE CONTINUAL REIMAGINATION OF CONVERSION
CONVERSION allows us to construe within a construct. Through exercises in defamiliarization with the familiar and the rotation of knows things, it is possible to reconceive our viewpoint and understanding in relation to our own making and that of others. To convert, comes from the Latin, vertere, to turn. Material and sensorial conversion results from a change of use but are not entirely dependent on it.
The idea of architecture in conversion can be read on multiple levels to account for the meaningful assimilation of unexpected chance events, material transmutations, multimodal reception of synesthetic experiences, and the turning of corners to unravel a story.
Goffi, Federica. Architecture in Conversion. The Singular Door to the Practice of Carlo Scarpa. OBL/QUE 2. Critical Conservation. Edited by Natalia Escobar Castrillón. 2018.