The Crack in the Wall

"Crack in the Wall" addresses "The Architect as Project", and we as Architects never work in isolation. Buildings are designed and built as a series of fragments, referencing multiple scales and materials, with architects continually dealing with different scenarios. But what happens in-between those seemingly discontinuous moments?

I did this project because as a young architect, where I want to situate my self, entering into the professional world, is not to think in a very small cycle or radius. To view context as something much broader than an individual moment, an individual site and an individual building. To look always for the connections, the affiliations of the narrative. To understand Architecture as an incredible broad environment of possibility and not of constraints. That’s why my project is not a building. It is a manifesto about connectivity and assembly that uses architecture as a threshold as opposed to a terminus. “The Crack in the Wall” approached Architecture as an entity that does not sit in isolation but rather holds the power of continuous transformation. The project interrogates the spaces of transition and the moments of connectivity between individual islands of events, artefacts and protagonists, which all together assemble one continuous Archipelago. Using as a foundation the surrealist game of “Exquisite Corpse”, the project argues for an Architecture that is constantly changing by transforming itself to create new architectural readings. By understanding form as a 2 things, as shape and as the idea that lies behind the shape, in Exquisite Corps the idea remains the same because we are always looking for either the head, the torso or the legs to complete a whole. However, because of the crack on the paper the shape changes and so does the body’s identity. Similarly to the drawing technique, the project argues for an Architecture that is not static. Through physical and visual transformations this continuous Archipelago takes us on a journey of a set of relationships, where the object doesn’t lie in its form, nor it’s shape or idea, but it is lies between the form and the performance. By reconfiguring and unfolding, the project explores architecture as a medium of change and transformation as opposed to a static immovable object. With every move, Architecture recreates itself, defeats its previous purpose and becomes something new. Perhaps a new fantasy, but definitely a new reality.