MAP DIAGRAM OF NEW ORLEANS AND VENICE
Through the granular lens of New Orleans, synthesized with Venice, NANO pursues the transformation of space, emphasizing the liminal moment. A heterogeneous experience is created which heightens the observer’s perception of change through time resulting in the experience of existence. Within the context of site, both micro and macro, the juxtaposition of place reveals parallels typically unseen. This installation challenges the observer to pause and deliberate on how the confluence of space is experienced.
Abstracting the vulnerability of Venice and New Orleans and their relationship to water, section cuts were created by emphasizing the high, low and corresponding topography, conceiving an alternative field condition resulting in the reflection of submerged space. Surrounded by the songs and sounds of both cities, an atmospheric cadence emerges, changing from rhythms to voices creating spatial syncopation. Absence of ground is contrasted by the traces of moments past, both collective and individual, on vertical boundaries. This is a conscious manifestation of the latent conditions of space, as revealed by our unconscious actions, experiences that are not experienced, yet are perceived as the way we see our world and traverse through it.
I attended lectures and presentations and assisted with historical and present-day research of New Orleans and Venice used for the foundation of the project.
Team Terri Dreyer, Ian Dreyer, Kristine Kobila, Samantha Johnson, Miko Futagoishi, Sam LeBlanc, Ivy Leleux, Kelsey Chappuis, Jacob Smiley, Ana Chu
drawings produced by NANO Architecture | Interiors
