in.ex.arc

international experiments in architecture

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Exhausted, stumbling under the fittings of a large iron skeleton. Moving through the darkened interiors, scrapping the dusty doorways, the dust in the air was of a sweet scent. Browned burnt sugar and mortar. Tripping over uneven flooring coming to rest ina cloud of fine dusts. The rei of the sun piercing through reflected a map of the skeleton in the sky silhouettes agains the clouds of sugared dust and cotton clouds.

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Chapter XXXVI: an immense spine of stone broke through the earth. The sloping face of the monolith slowly ascended to a rounded crown. Arriving on the opposite side of the ridge the stone shell sank underfoot, shedding plates of rock in large thin spalls. Water seeped upwards from an unseen source through the fissures in the stone. Stone shards, placed on end set a field of stone-spire sun-dials marking time in counted in cracks and lichen.

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Chapter XXXVII: Which Recounts the Discovery of the Gilded Silos and Their Sunset Harvesters. On the Plateau del Sol I found five silos astride the sunset, galvanized sides gleaming in the yellowing light. Emerging at each, a large white mechanical beast, staring down the sun. The vibrant corrugation rippling like muscle under skin, shining, bright, pulsing with reflected heat. The machinery drinking in the fading light gave a low rumble as augers, siphons and belts churned the remaining days of the sunset to the interior

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Slogging on slowly through the enveloping blanket of mist I arrived at the next city on the crest of a hill. The rod widened and transformed into a battered wall. On either side the hill had been cut away, falling off into a cliff the base of which was shrouded from sight. A false arch lead to a blind courtyard, the wall had no gateway upon which to enter; a single staircase marked by a single light post lead downwards.

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H A Я P | Øystein Sture Aspelund

A photoseries about an enormous abandoned listening device, shot inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. The construction was a former top secret military object used by the Soviet Union for early detection of nuclear missiles from the west. The gigantic antenna, measuring approximately 800m x 100m, sometimes reminds of a gigantic H A Я P.

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On my attempt to cross the river I found the fog had again followed me. The bridge was now encased in a thick wall of moving mist that ran with the river between the treed banks. The damp vapor grew dense and colder as I approached. The cold exhalations of the water expelling condensation on my jacket, numbing fingers. A dull rumble of the river rose through the cloud. Unable to cross the thick atmosphere encasing the bridge, I turned back in search of another route.

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Searching for a map of the city, I found only the remnants of severed from their foundations. The remains of maps from years past built upon each other formed a new city one merged from histories of yellowed paper cut through by staples, mortared with tape faded and washed until the ink was washed on to the layer of another. The text was illegible and yet the ghosts of the city echoed across the blank surface.

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I arrived in Avila to find the city blanketed in thick fog. The glow of the spotlights could not even cut through the mist palpable on the tongue. Walking up to the gateway cars exiting the city found themselves blinded by the sudden onslaught of fog reflecting their headlamps, as they careened through the narrow opening and slid around the wet cobble hairpin. Even the light of the moon would not pierce this haze.

I entered the city armed only with a single roll in my camera and my sketchbook. With three quick paces I was through the narrow stone gate.

Inside the air was clear and crisp and the moonlight shown on the Plaza Concepcion. The walls of the city keeping the thick atmosphere at bay.

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travelling first years respond to Andrew Hart’s thumbnail on sensing spaces // Wieliczka Salt Mine // licking

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axonometric can be awesome!

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built not unlike a cardboard eggcrate model....

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flyingfoundations // digital playgrond

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Oneroi, Take 23

experimental analog/digital hybrid audio/visual/spatial exploration of artist Ellen Fullman's installation and performance at Cornell AAP's Milstien Hall Dome in February of 2013 - also performing is the Cornell Experimental Ensemble

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teaser trailer for Oneroi, Take 23

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Luminares + Lampshades

Sibley East Hallway Exhibit, October 15 -31

Special thanks to Historic Ithaca for the use of the lighting fixtures on loan in this exhibit.

Historic Ithaca

212 Center St, Ithaca, NY 14850

www.historicithaca.org

Lights ability to transform space has always been a part of architecture.

The advent of the electric light brought the ability of light to transform the night and the interior of architecture in new ways.

Presented on the shelves are a collection of notable lights, lamps, and lighting devices - of various typologies from famous designers and engineers, and a selection of places and landmarks made famous through the relatively recent history of the electric light.

Above, each of the fixtures on exhibit has been salvaged from a home that has either been demolished, renovated or refurbished in or around the Ithaca / Tompkins County region.  With them they carry the iconography, style, taste, and dust of an era of ‘house’ and ‘home’ not just through light but also in the space their effects - for good, bad or otherwise.

Taken individually, each fixture may be reminiscent of a grandparent’s house, a certain chain family restaurant, an entry foyer of a neighbor’s house - combined together the reflections and shadows intermix to suggest a second ceiling. Do not just observe the fixtures, but the space the light affects, a collection of local of lighting personalities and overlapping facets.

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Sonora Desert

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Ward Roberts - Billions (Hong Kong Reflections)