Veljko Mladenovic
The project is an insightful exploration of the self. The program: a series of workshops populate the Plum-Pudding-Island landscape. The workshops are envisaged as a place for the community to come together; resident weavers and woodworkers for an extended period of time also become teachers to the wider Thanet community.
Exploring the self, this meant understanding my own processes of design; what resulted in a series of experiments exploring the random nature of doing something for its own sake - because I wanted to. Not a novel sentiment, Louis Pasteur - the physical chemist - called this becoming a prepared mind. Doing a task for its own sake.
Three simple steps ensue:
1.Collect found object : why has this been collected
2. Make: what can I do with found objects
3. Draw: how might this translate into architecture
Drawing became a primary means of exploration. Meditation and mediation of objects and lines entwined.
The resulting framework is formed of four building assemblies: workshops, a tearoom, gallery, and artist residences. Like found objects in the landscape, each bares a relation to the other. The last - the residence - sitting as a stone in the field.
Drawing became a primary means of exploration. Meditation and mediation of objects and lines entwined.
The resulting framework is formed of four building assemblies: workshops, a tearoom, gallery, and artist residences. Like found objects in the landscape, each bares a relation to the other. The last - the residence - sitting as a stone in the field.
In its concluding phase, found objects- five-stones - became a tool: a way to draw the architecture.
These techniques varied and encompassed everything from collaging to collaborative drawing.
A tearoom sits as a focal point of social interactions away from the workplace.
