Silent retreats’ rising popularity poses a challenge: How to handle the quiet It has been exactly one week since the completion of third year final reviews, and suddenly the above article has somehow managed to change my position regarding our most recent project. We were assigned to design a retreat for the medical community of Des Moines in the rural glory of Madison County, Iowa. While searching for a starting point, my partner and I decided that a series of informal conversations with members of the community would be our best bet. Through these conversations, we found that several members would not use such a opportunity. Perhaps they were realists, or work driven, or even unacquainted with the advantages that a retreat project typology could offer. However, we found that making the first move for a project that would ultimately be rendered meaningless by those intended to utilize the space was by far one of the most challenging problem settings for attempted solution we had taken on yet. Each step throughout the process had me wondering if we could, through design, reverse the almost non-existant value placed on solitude and retreat, specific to Des Moines. At first, I wasn't so sure. Boorstein's writing makes me understand that such a reversal of opinion, regarding retreat, may actually be possible. Such a shift is already apparent elsewhere. http://www.krobarch.com/index.asp
While I should probably be discouraged from any further productivity, the above site is easily one I find myself continuously navigating while putting together a portfolio. We need to let one another into our own sketch books more often. "Everything is Amazing and Nobody is Happy"
I'll be keeping the words of Louis C.K.(found in the line above) in mind as these next four days begin to bring the semester to an end. Allowing renders to take their time is well worth the wait, right? Happy final review season. Alex Olevitch introduced me to this project this afternoon. The analysis associated behind why we value the objects we do is fully illustrated in this SOM Foundation project. What resonates as truly amazing, is the idea that upon death, what we value can be placed back into the circulation cycle that society upholds. Processions of the deceased travel through a process for their eventual re-introduction. Aside from incredible rendering and visual representation, the thought behind the project is incredible. Something only truly understood if you take a look at the founders words . http://www.somfoundation.som.com/booklets/ukaward2012/ These are the types of projects we should compose once in awhile. Rika Noguchi
The Sun We got a chance to see this exhibition when visiting the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Definitely worth a look. |
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