Deconstructive Architecture

In the 1980's a new tendency was born: the deconstruction, which was also called "new modern architecture" in its beginning. It was meant to replace postmodern architecture. A very significant difference of this style is that it started rather from an intellectual movement than from a significant building marking its beginning. The new slogan was "form follows fantasy" analogous to the tradition formula pronounced by Sullivan "form follows function". In 1988 Philip Johnson organized an exposition called "Deconstructive Architecture" which finally brought these ideas to a larger audience. Those ideas even had a philosophical base developed by Jacques Derrida.

The idea was to develop buildings which show how differently from traditional architectural conventions buildings can be built without losing their utility and still complying with the fundamental laws of physics. The houses looked as if a bunch of parts had been thrown together and left exactly the way they fell on the floor. These buildings can be seen as a parallel to other modern arts, which also became more and more abstract, questioning whether a certain object is still art or not. Thanks to their significant differences to all other buildings, the deconstructive ones made clear to the observer, that architecture is an art and not just an engineering discipline. This movement was also inspired by the futurists of the early 20th century in Russia who also broke with all architectural conventions of their time. Because the deconstructive houses were huge abstract sculptures you can enter rather than real buildings, the number of realized works is rather small. Due to the high costs and the fact that big companies were not interested in such buildings for their representative skyscrapers and even less for their functional buildings, only small projects for the public sector or private clients were realized. Like the new roof for a lawyer’s office realized in 1983 until 1984 in Vienna by COOP Himmelblau.

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Interior Sketch

After deconstructing some speed paintings into 3D shapes, the next step was to think of ways to translate does shapes into an interior space. The shapes did not necessary stay the same when used in the interior sketch, but they were however the starting point of gathering different ideas.

The idea behind this sketch was to make the wall itself 3D, different forms coming out of the wall and continuing into the space, the reason I did this was after considering the space restriction. The space am working with is very small, therefore large structure will be very tight or simply not work at all. So instead I decided to make the most of the space which included using the wall, instead of starting from the middle. The forms here like the others have been inspired by the concept of speed and were extracted from shapes I deconstructed from the paintings.

This sketch so far is my favourite, just like the concept of speed, everything is continuous. It all start from one shape and continues from one side to another. It almost like drawing without moving hand from the paper. This was also a from that I extracted from the deconstruction, however due to the manner of the space itself, it was impossible to keep the exact form. There had to be some changes to fit the space. 

Again here, I kept with the concept, and tried a different variation in terms of forms and shapes. This one is very simple yet displays the concept at first glance. I had to make sure that the space did not only respond to the concept but also had a sense of functionality. As you can see, the space has a bed and drawers to the function of the client. 

This image was design for the image above it. As i mention above, the space had to have a function and not only be aesthetically conceptualised. The image shows the process of a bed folding from one half to act as a form of chair. Once the bed is folded as one, step 6 shows the back of the chair which can be pulled up so the client could lean back and rest. 

This one so far is the least of my favourite, I just simply did not find it aesthetically pleasing, even though it still in concept and also has a function which is so obvious. Maybe with little changes it can be a design that I can consider, but as yet it is the least of my favourite but I believe it all part of the design process, some work and some dont.

Initial Sketch

After looking at several images from artist who explored the concept of speed, I began to deconstruct some of these speed painting shapes and try to make them look 3D. I chose some of the most interesting section of the paintings and tried to make them shapes look 3D so that I can later use them in my interior space.

Speed

In this page I will upload images of everything that comes to mind when thinking about speed. The purpose of this is to help me generate as much ideas as possible.

Zaha Hadid

I have also looked at some of Zaha Hadids work. She designed a lot of futuristic space which I thought would be nice for inspiration and also ties in with the whole concept of speed.

Futuristic Architecture

After choosing my concept, I tarted to look at designers and painters who have also used speed as their concept. I realised that the shapes were very organic and smooth shapes. After analysing some of the artists work, I became aware that speed had a lot to do with future as most of them are also futuristic designers. I have therefore started looking at futuristic architecture for inspiration for my final design.