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Still Points, Southern California Institute of Architecture |
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| Stillpoints was an installation at SCI-Arc in 2004 consisting of 40 parallel “fabric” planes, 12 ft. high by 25 ft. wide and 14 in. apart. We had three principle objectives: to be an alternative to the solid objects that preoccupy us as architects, for the space to be experienced as both a cave (earth space) and a tent (sky space), entering from the “ground above” down a ladder and into a long “carved” linear space, moving to a larger centralized “egg-shaped” room, and to represent idea and experience as discrete and equal concepts. While the exhibit’s multiple layers are visible from above, the experience of the spaces is only realized upon entering. Perhaps the most important aspect of the installation was that it offered a place of solitude in the midst of the busy school environment. Solitude and community are as essential in creative institutions as they are in society at large. In solitude, we “cry for a vision” and in turn, the insights revealed are brought back into the larger world, simultaneously renewing one and many. |
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