STUDIO_6
TIME: 2016
PROF: DR._EREZ_GOLANI_SOLOMON, OREN_ELDAR
The projects was part of a conceptual studio concerned with architectural manifestation of political ideas. The idea which the project dealt with was 'Beauty'. Two artifacts in two different locations in Israel are suggested. One is a basalt quarry and a large stone processing workshop in Golan-Heights, and the second, an ore mine and ore processing plant in the desert.
NORTH
SOUTH
the project uses the strategy of diverting the view to the distant, from the city to the country-side, from the final product to the modes of production. By laying the infrastructure for the possibility of craft, which products are flaunting by particular materiality we can discuss the political idea of local-beauty.
The beauty to which the project refers is distant, of regions viewed from satellites, and of the Israeli countryside landscapes photos. The distance allows focusing on the sites where earth is mined and construction materials are provided. At the far end of commodities movement.
At the contemporary ecological discourse, the footprint, the seam between the artifact and it's environment is commonly presented as a price should be minimized. The project aims at converting the referring to footprint from profit and loss to an aesthetic quality, which determines the right of the project to exist. By looking at the sites where mountains are being flattened, we can discuss the aesthetic potential of these relations culture and nature. The artifact's footprint is no more an irreversible destruction to be removed from sight, but an occurrence of accelerated transformation, an aesthetic event taking place in time.
In the southern artifact we can notice the gap between the measurements of the lines drowned by the mining and dispersion of by products acts to the relatively small size of the plant. The tension between small workshops to extra-large landscapes transformed by mechanic arms is an important element in the projects understanding of footprint as an aesthetic category. The workshop in the north will leave behind it two basic architectural gestures. On one side of it, an artificial winding gorge void created by the labour of mining, and on its other side a volume, mirrored high and heavy basalt wall.
A major effort in the project was given to making material qualities a proper subject of discussion about beauty. A massive triangle column, made of hewn basalt and the minerals capillaries in the extracted material are an important element in the description of beauty that the project suggests.
One of the conditions that the projects assumes for the possibility of aesthetic traditions to establish itself, is the laying of appropriate infrastructure for craft concerned with local materials. The craft workshops, from which the products are departing, are situated in spaces, complimented by the constructive element at the scale of infrastructure, presenting the potential of the craft.
