Timelessness

TEAM

Saumya Verma, Riya Malhotra, Suryansh Gupta

TOOLS

AutoCAD, SketchUp, 3ds Max, Lumion, Photoshop CC

TIMELINE

Dec 2018

SITE

New York, USA

AWARDS

Shortlisted Top 25 (International)

The aim of the competition was to design a sculpture that acts as a symbolic representation of the Architect's work. The sculpture shall target aspects of design as referred and developed by the chosen architect and it shall be made accessible to the end users, explore stimuli and various possibilities to be physically experienced by the end users. The chosen architect was Frank O. Gehry.

THE SITE

Location: New York, USA

Site Area: 3500 sqm

Built-up Area: 600 sqm

Ground Coverage: 400 sqm

The city of skyscrapers, New York, undoubtedly acted as a magnet for all modernist architects. Gehry’s respect and love for New York’s past is precisely why New Yorkers have come to love Gehry. His variety of work in New York is believed not to be broken from the past, but a new way of expressing continuity with it.

THE CONCEPT

Can a work of architecture express feeling?

Stubbornly and passionately, Gehry has held onto one goal: to create buildings that inspire emotion. He used abstract expressionism to evoke varied emotions throughout his architectural journey like stability, growth, boldness, movement, feminism, reflection, fluidity, fragmentation, inspiration and humanism.


Emotions are abstractly represented with the use of varied lines which are then integrated to plot a three-dimensional graph. The lines used for each emotion are depicted in the timeline. Visualising the graph like a Frank Gehry sketch, it is modelled out as a deconstructed form, much like the process Gehry followed. The monochromatic red scale shows the flow of emotions with respect to the given timeline.

THE TIMELINE OF GEHRY'S LIFE

UNDERSTANDING THE BUILT FORM

The sculpture cladded with titanium, stainless steel and glass is centrally placed on the site with cubes radiating outwards. The cubes can act as sitting spaces and can be used as multipurpose building blocks evoking one emotion that all his forms stimulate - curiosity.

Justifying the deconstructive form of the sculpture, it portrays different elevations from each direction which are represented in illustration.

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