mAtlas

Analysis of our group mind-map [ana-blog] in the Material studio...exploring influences, common themes, cross overs and interesting stuff...

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Incisions

Above is the written part of my thesis, enjoy...

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A Concrete Monologue

Some images from the edge...taken at Purteen Harbour, Achill. I like the tension between existing rock and the poured concrete in these photographs. What better way to mediate between a wild sea and a rugged terrain?

   

 

      

These images were photographed on a Practika BC1 35mm camera and developed by hand on Ilford Multigrade IV Pearl Paper.

The Decorated Shed

Shed - Purteen Harbour, Achill

"where systems of space and structure are directly at the service of program, and ornament is applied independantly of them. This we call the decorated shed." (Venturi, 1974)

Shark Research Facilities in progress...

Using the story of basking shark hunting in Achill to inform a brief for research facilities, the project aims to generate an architecture which engages the salient subtext of a place...

The Plot

Long Section

Plan

Cross Sections

A work in progress...

Engaging the Subtext

1Context; the circumstances relevant to an event or fact; the words before and after a word or passage in a piece of writing that contribute to its meaning.


2Subtext;an underlying theme in a piece of writing; a message which is not stated directly but can be inferred 

This image consists of six sections taken through Keem Bay, Achill with a narratives collaged into each. The narratives explore concealed/buried/forgotten aspects of the island that have informed its cultural development. The subtexts are analogous to tectonic fault-lines in the landscape. A shift in plate movement and they are exposed on the surface for all to see. The image above sets out the structure of the written thesis while visually mapping my ideas and discoveries...

References: Collins English Dictionary

Context•Subtext

"landscapes come to stand as symbols of continuity, the product of land worked over and produced, etched with the past so that history runs through geography..."

(edensor, 2003)

the physical landscape of keem bay in achill is sliced open to reveal a series of collaged narratives i.e. subtexts. these contain fragments of songs, stories and images from the island's recent and distant past. 

By acknowledging the cultural topography of a place the model attempts to show that a study of the physical terrain alone is not enough...

references: edensor, t.,  national identity, popular culture and everyday life, berg, oxford 2003