December 2011 Archives
The Great Escape
We are always isolated in the room. We retreat only to try to leave the retreat
again...
This project inhabits in the world where
different spaces and rooms are linked to each other through various thresholds
such as doors, windows, monitor screens etc.
Such collapsing of geographical distance condenses architecture into
multiple "snapshots" of spaces and moments.
One mediates within this world through constant entering and exiting of
rooms and moments. It is clear for the
inhabitants of this world that the interior and exterior can never be defined
by façades, and it does not take long for them to realize this can neither be
defined through entry and exit. Anxiety
grows as they further discover each of them is in fact encapsulated within
their own room. A Great Escape has to be
planned.
- Again presentation skill is yet to be
improved. Things have to be more
seamless. For instance, the Kyoyo view
in the Re-con has to replaced with the HK view so it links more clearly.
- The super narrative should be the idea of
comic, the idea/ relationship between the isolation of the frame and its role
within the sequence, where the AA Box is embedded in it. Thus, the Box should be presented after the
comic.
- The idea of prison is interesting: architect of prison, then the architect is in
the prison; individual frame and reading all operate in a kind of ever, further
embedding of a story within a story.
However, even though the four characters (the prisoner, the warden, the
guard and the visitor) are useful in exploring different aspects of the story,
the idea of prison is too strong as a device, which it dominates everything and
is too literal. Maybe talk about the
story of isolation and containment without mentioning "the prison".
- Suggestion: procession, monastery;
hikikomori (prison of your own making, self imprisonment, extreme degrees of
isolation and confinement)
- Hikikomori: shift from a room to
hyper-internalised process, such as obsessive gaming, etc. This can then construct the narrative around
the particular obsession, which can be deeply personal (focus shift from object
to person).
- Hikikomori: warden is the parents, this can
then translate into a sub-narrative into the warden.
- Also consider the imprisonment of an idea,
obsession of an idea; different cultures, social barrier as a form of
imprisonment/ isolation.
- Hikikomori: the guard is the room itself as
it already has everything needed, it is no longer necessary to leave the
room. The guard becomes a kind of
architectural mechanism.
I am currently trying to rearrange the
comic so they should look less scattered; and re-doing the room where it is now
the room of a hikikomori teenager (the prison becomes one of the
sub-narratives), and constructing a better linkage between the new room, the
school, and the prison. Hopefully, I can
have a new version of my argument to go with the re-arranged comic. Argument
will post here later. Here's is a wip
view of the room (which is still quite empty...) and also the comic cubes that I
showed on last Friday.
