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Architecture is a verb. Active and in flux, movement is a generator of spatial experience that I explore through the threshold to empower an engaged and meaningful spatial and social condition within the built environment. Utilising the threshold as a methodological tool, I am exploring how this architectural element is the most active space within architecture. Ushering us in and out of spaces and offering opportunities for engagement with the built environment, the threshold is a physical manifestation of movement signifying a transition from one space to another. The threshold not only offers individuals an engaging experience with architecture, but the threshold also is a social condition that offers engagement with one another. Influenced by the theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber’s theory of the ‘in-between’ as a space necessary for human contact and meaningful relationships, I look at these cultural and social relationships fostered through developed and articulated thresholds found within architecture. My practice lies between architecture and art as I employ the method of installations and interventions as a way for spatial experimentation and promoter of social interaction. Feeding research into praxis, I speculate on ways of adapting spatial interventions that will experiment with our perceptions of movement, time and space. The generation of these built works constitutes questions of spatial practice and focuses on our perceptions through sensorial effects evoked and enhanced through movement. The very position that my practice takes is between the thresholds of art and architecture. Through an interdisciplinary practice, I am self-critical through the very nature of being challenged from both lenses of art and architecture. Placing emphasis upon my identity as an ‘architect/artist,’ I navigated the practical research through the institutions of art - participating in artist residencies and exhibitions, while the contextual research lay primarily in the discourse of architecture. I have gone ...
Architecture is a verb. Active and in flux, movement is a generator of spatial experience that I explore through the threshold to empower an engaged and meaningful spatial and social condition within the built environment. Utilising the threshold as a methodological tool, I am exploring how this architectural element is the most active space within architecture. Ushering us in and out of spaces and offering opportunities for engagement with the built environment, the threshold is a physical manifestation of movement signifying a transition from one space to another. The threshold not only offers individuals an engaging experience with architecture, but the threshold also is a social condition that offers engagement with one another. Influenced by the theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber’s theory of the ‘in-between’ as a space necessary for human contact and meaningful relationships, I look at these cultural and social relationships fostered through developed and articulated thresholds found within architecture. My practice lies between architecture and art as I employ the method of installations and interventions as a way for spatial experimentation and promoter of social interaction. Feeding research into praxis, I speculate on ways of adapting spatial interventions that will experiment with our perceptions of movement, time and space. The generation of these built works constitutes questions of spatial practice and focuses on our perceptions through sensorial effects evoked and enhanced through movement. The very position that my practice takes is between the thresholds of art and architecture. Through an interdisciplinary practice, I am self-critical through the very nature of being challenged from both lenses of art and architecture. Placing emphasis upon my identity as an ‘architect/artist,’ I navigated the practical research through the institutions of art - participating in artist residencies and exhibitions, while the contextual research lay primarily in the discourse of architecture. I have gone ...
Architecture is a Verb
Vantu, Quynh (author)
2022-04-28
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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720
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