My Death Pavilion - Study for a Contemporary Ruin Structure
My Death Pavilion is an idea for a small, self-contained structure. There is no heating or electric lighting inside. Owned by no one, it can be visited at any time.
As a contemporary ruin, it is an autonomous structure whose agenda for its visitors is revealed only by its interior.
Hollow cones emerging from the inside ceiling are illuminated by natural light, and together form a concentrated array around a central platform. This stage space evokes the final site of a wasting figure lying in repose.
As the focal point of the interior, this singular platform invites the lone visitor into a solitary meditative experience. Others are relegated to the periphery.
The illuminated apertures overhead signal a metaphorical overload of visual sensation to be resolved through an inward meditation and transformation, in turn evoking the building itself as a sort of body.
All the images portray an underlying concept whose refinement and development is still underway.
The building is for a proposed single site entitled New Ruin City, and is to be linked with other programmatic constructions.
Related Works: 2011 Sculptures
My Death Pavilion is an idea for a small, self-contained structure. There is no heating or electric lighting inside. Owned by no one, it can be visited at any time.
As a contemporary ruin, it is an autonomous structure whose agenda for its visitors is revealed only by its interior.
Hollow cones emerging from the inside ceiling are illuminated by natural light, and together form a concentrated array around a central platform. This stage space evokes the final site of a wasting figure lying in repose.
As the focal point of the interior, this singular platform invites the lone visitor into a solitary meditative experience. Others are relegated to the periphery.
The illuminated apertures overhead signal a metaphorical overload of visual sensation to be resolved through an inward meditation and transformation, in turn evoking the building itself as a sort of body.
All the images portray an underlying concept whose refinement and development is still underway.
The building is for a proposed single site entitled New Ruin City, and is to be linked with other programmatic constructions.
Related Works: 2011 Sculptures
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INTERIOR MODELS ABOVE... EXTERIOR RUMINATIONS BELOW....
The illumination for this structure's interior could come entirely from openings in the ceiling and roof. Therefore, with mostly
opaque sides, design options for the facade could range from the purely decorative, (black exterior), to making a comment on two delightful bandwagons: the featureless, urban modernist box as having become a completely sustainable "green" construction.