Stimuli

Ben Heine

Ben Heine looks into contact between imagination and reality in his 'Pencil vs Camera' artworks. This technique was suggested as a means of quick expression of ideas, and then carried out into three locations chosen looking into the relationship between our selected ideas and spaces.

Two previous projects 

chosen from our group

The 'waking up' project from me started with the idea of reuse and reconstruction where the site chosen was the  old Railway Station turned Apartment building. The room specified within the Railway Station was overcoated with materials particularly metal replacing the old parts with a new, as to reinforce the room into a new function, but there in contrast, in the style of Victorian Industrial Revolution era as to present the past.

The 'sustenance' project from Soni focused on the idea of transition from the old to the new kinds of design. Where the old designs had focus on the artistic and religious aspects, not necessarily centralising on convenience and efficiency, and in comparison, modern shapes and forms of urban space are made with contemporary living standard in reason and primarily focuses on convenience and efficiency.  Complimented with old structures and design, the contemporary design of structures is his sustenance. In particular, the outside views that the modern urban structures provided and that with more to see, more motivation was spurred.

Maison de Verre

'House of Glass'

Known for being built on the site of a much older building, it reflects on our initiative ideas of reuse and transition from the old to new.

With the house design emphasizing the 'honesty of materials' through exposing naked forms of materials, relationship between the previous projects we decided to base our ideas from and the building I was given in the matrix is recognised through that, the 'waking up' project focused on the idea of reuse and Victorian Industrial Revolution in presenting the past where there's the visual similarities. The 'Sustenance' project with the idea of transition from the old to new is strongly related to the house design's second emphasis of 'juxtaposition of industrial materials,' and the Victorian Industrial Revolution which marked the beginning age of mass production and influenced modern design.

The idea of gathering can be found through the formation shape and formal arrangement of the exteriority. A repetition within a repetition of tiles gives solidity to the pattern and the squares inside the rectangles gives a sense of framing with clean organisation reinforcing that understanding of  formality. The organisation gives reminder to that of a honeycomb which in nature, represents the basis of collective gathering.