Today I got hold of Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard. I have begun to read it, and so far it has been a good read. The parallels with the film Trainspotting are quite interesting- I feel that it illustrates that architecture is not as much about the space as how the people inhabit it. The ruin of Shanghai due to the people, and the lived in sensation I find interesting, and it is an aspect that I am trying to portray with my Mobile. The mobile's actual physicality is an interesting problem - how do you 'show' the lived-in nature of a space?
So far I have:
-Considered layers of planes showing 'dirt' built up- this could be done with laser cutting patterns onto transparent material, or routing 'bumps' into things on purpose. 123D catch experiments become relevant here.
-Wondered if a collection of the lived in objects, or impressions of them, would be interesting.
Personally I think that neither of these is a particularly good idea, one seems too 2D and the other too literal.
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