The
research began with a fascination for unearthing events too fast or slow for us
to usually notice, using filmic techniques to make connections across speeds of
time.
In an abandoned gulley in Tout Quarry, Portland, the project sets up an ecology of dependencies between different speeds of change - building upon an existing sculpting infrastructure. Where sculpting often represents a desire to extend a moment, occupants learn to carve increasingly short durations, as opposed to instants, or still lives. These dependencies are sculpting studios of increasing difficulty - students progress from one studio to the next in a process of becoming ever more temporally acute; discovering the richness beneath the site’s veil of inactivity. Over ‘time’, the sculpting generates a relief map of un-noticed changes across the walls of the gullies; an evolving atlas of infra-events.
To support these durational acuities, the facility is partially constructed from un-noticed dust from the sculpting process. Forming like stalactites, the wind affects the shape of artificially created ‘geological’ shells, which reciprocally affects the wind as it passes through. Spaces inhabit these shells - turbulent wind flows prevents habituation, creating a slower experience of duration; whereas the consistency of laminar flow is utilised for faster durational experiences, and for ventilation.
In an abandoned gulley in Tout Quarry, Portland, the project sets up an ecology of dependencies between different speeds of change - building upon an existing sculpting infrastructure. Where sculpting often represents a desire to extend a moment, occupants learn to carve increasingly short durations, as opposed to instants, or still lives. These dependencies are sculpting studios of increasing difficulty - students progress from one studio to the next in a process of becoming ever more temporally acute; discovering the richness beneath the site’s veil of inactivity. Over ‘time’, the sculpting generates a relief map of un-noticed changes across the walls of the gullies; an evolving atlas of infra-events.
To support these durational acuities, the facility is partially constructed from un-noticed dust from the sculpting process. Forming like stalactites, the wind affects the shape of artificially created ‘geological’ shells, which reciprocally affects the wind as it passes through. Spaces inhabit these shells - turbulent wind flows prevents habituation, creating a slower experience of duration; whereas the consistency of laminar flow is utilised for faster durational experiences, and for ventilation.
Year 5 Project
Unit X25: Nat Chard, Emma-Kate Matthews Site Location: Tout Quarry, Isle of Portland, Dorset
Date: January - May 2022
The Bartlett Online Summer Show 2022
X25 Website
Unit X25: Nat Chard, Emma-Kate Matthews Site Location: Tout Quarry, Isle of Portland, Dorset
Date: January - May 2022
The Bartlett Online Summer Show 2022
X25 Website
Studios create inter-durational dependencies
Three studio spaces are designed to form relationships between events occuring on different speeds of time. Being filmed, a model/instrument containing fragments of these studios was used as a design tool.
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Oberservational Interstices
The observer slowly moves down the Gulley, watching local passer-bys, who experience time quickly due to taking the same route each day;
using them as a study.
The prickly sense of being watched is increased for the passer-by also, increasing their durational acuity.
Atlas of Infra-Events
A relief map of infra-events is created by the sculptors. Learning to read it provides the viewer with knowledge from other time-speeds. The fast studio creates many small, detailed carvings that criss-cross over one another; whereas the slow studios create larger, less detailed reliefs. In this case, the lead sculpor has sculpted over a slower relief.
A relief map of infra-events is created by the sculptors. Learning to read it provides the viewer with knowledge from other time-speeds. The fast studio creates many small, detailed carvings that criss-cross over one another; whereas the slow studios create larger, less detailed reliefs. In this case, the lead sculpor has sculpted over a slower relief.
Durational Tectonics
A reciprocal relationship between wind and architecture is created. In this way, the architectural language creates a dependency between phenomenal time (wind) and geological time (shells).
Air texture is used to manipulate durational acuity. Beginning in the ‘fast’ studio as thin, jagged, rippling shells - the layers build up and erode, becoming ever smoother. This creates smoother, more comfortable airflow utilised for studying slower changing phenomena. The younger, jagged shells create unpredictable vortices, which aid the study of fast changing phenomena.
A reciprocal relationship between wind and architecture is created. In this way, the architectural language creates a dependency between phenomenal time (wind) and geological time (shells).
Air texture is used to manipulate durational acuity. Beginning in the ‘fast’ studio as thin, jagged, rippling shells - the layers build up and erode, becoming ever smoother. This creates smoother, more comfortable airflow utilised for studying slower changing phenomena. The younger, jagged shells create unpredictable vortices, which aid the study of fast changing phenomena.
Oberservational Interstices
The observer slowly moves down the Gulley, watching local passer-bys, who experience time quickly due to taking the same route each day;
using them as a study.
The prickly sense of being watched is increased for the passer-by also, increasing their durational acuity.
+2.6m Plan
Section A-A