MANIFESTO for a white building on white ground
Iconic Anarchitecture
Manifesto for a white building on white ground - Ein Gedankengebaeude
Iconic Anarchitecture is to do away with the dominance of the image based one-liner building
and replace it with a clearing conceived of as backdrop setting for further prospects and eventualities.
Iconic Anarchitecture is preparing the canvas rather then spitting out paint.
Iconic Anarchitecture that is a White building on white ground!
Iconic Anarchitecture is ignoring the existing context but will arrive with its own invented one.
Therefore Iconic Anarchitecture’s essence is context itself.
Iconic Anarchitecture will set up the stage to let the imaginary landmarks of the city shine once again.
Iconic Anarchitecture that is a White building on white ground!
Iconic Anarchitecture will offer a plane for collective vision
while leaving space for individual interpretation,
Iconic Anarchitecture will be the refuge for the daydreams of the citys inhabitants.
Iconic Anarchitecture that is a White building on white ground!
The white building is said to completely disappear within its background,
Merge, mix and melt within its context, only a contour –
every now and then a single line, a line without thickness-
then eventually it reveals itself– maybe the white building never existed,
nobody can really tell, they say it casts no shadow,
imaginative speculation, it all depends on the perspective of the observer.
Iconic Anarchitecture plays with the relationship between desire and reality,
between emotion and reason.
Iconic Anarchitecture triggers a voluntary suspension of disbelief which allows to accept
as real that which is pure fiction.
Iconic Anarchitecture that is a White building on white ground!
The White ground that is the context plane!
The White building that is a representative for the imaginary landmarks of the cities inhabitants!
The white building is a portrait of that, which the city was uncapable of - to present.
Materialisation
Iconic Anarchitecture will consist of two basic elements,
the context plane (white ground) that is tied to the physical rules of reality
and the imaginary landmark (the white building) that is mainly invisible
(with accordingly different physical rules)
but with a constant and intense influence of the formal manifestation of the context plane/ground
the white building mainfests itsself mainly as 3 dimensional cast or imprint.
Iconic anarchitecture will be constructed from two different perspectives/point of views.
It will combine different horizon lines.
The context plane (white ground) will be designed according to the rules of an inside view frog perspective based on the fact that each observer perceives only a tiny fraction of the full reality
we are part of.
The context plane will be experienced on three different scales as to sensitize the observer regarding a more careful, inward reading. It will perform like a filter to strip of hastiness and allow to perceive the traces of the imaginary landmark, the white building.
The imaginary landmark (white building) will be constructed according to the rules of a bird perspective,
the outside view of a mathematician studying its mathematical equations, containing within it a vast number of parallel classical storylines.
The imaginary landmark casts no shadow.
The imaginary landmark bypasses the influence of gravity.
Ina,
This white-on-white idea makes me think of Yoko Ono's White Chess Set. Suppose you've already seen it, but just in case:
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMMNQ
http://a198.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/100/l_e01c81f84fc78379839c6a609330ed95.jpg
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