Camouflage of the stereotype Iconic

After re-thinking Tuesday's tutorial I thought about the question how my rather "radical" self-referential manifesto

differs from the "generic-Dubai-Model" and I came to the conclusion for now- that it could be interesting to work on a Montage of Antithesis. I tried to pin point the Iconic Stereotype design criteria and contrasted them with my own thoughts and criteria. I was thinking the dialectic, overlap and tension between the two of them could be interesting to combine within the topic of camouflage and dissolution.

The model above tries to demonstrate that in a rather abstract first attempt. It is a self-referential iconic tower (in a literal sense-) that dissolves with its surrounding through camouflage.  

Stereotype of the ICONIC

no context         

vague shape                                                          

bigness – be obvious

pleasure activity – “the museum”

pop/glamorous

Camouflage of the Stereotype

invention of context

design according to classic aesthetic principles

be subtle

emptiness, silence, immersion

timeless/clarity