Crisis Staircase

The Architecture Before The Architecture

the sesnors on the car and the crash test dummies are located on all critical points. they give the car manufactures information about what is the weakest points on the cars body. once during a discussion with neil spiller he said to me " any system is as strong as its weekest link."
all the data form these critical points helps analyse & improve the cars safety standards and improve the strength of the system.

These are some pictures which show the effect of landslides and earthquakes on the existing dwellings of the village. To an outsider these seem to be unseen and unknown moments of devastation, but to the locals these moments have become a way of life. They have accepted these incidents as they are and have become numb to them since they know these events are out of their control.
The existing dwelling is constantly configured and reconfigured as a result to the constant dialogue between the landscape and its inhabitants. As a next step to this project I am thinking of modelling certain impact points in the existing dwelling. These impact points will change over time due to the shifts in landslide size, sites and patterns. It might also be seen as impact on impact points on a crash test dummy when subjected to different types of accidents. Using the materials like mud, calcium carbonate, water or even metals like copper extracted from the channel making system we can cast the destructed portion of the dwelling. these casts will then be used as new layers of skin on the ghost village. Or another way this can be done is by accumulating data using sensors all over the dwelling to rapid prototype zinc, calcium or copper into the new skins growing over the ghost village. This process will lead to a development the ghost village into a palimpsest which visually and spatially voices the conversation between the existing dwelling, users and the landslides. a traveller who visits this village even for the first time would get a fair idea about the volatility of the landscape and the dialogue between the environment and its components.
This will also lead to emergence of new spaces in the ghost village and to occupy these unusual spaces the inhabitants will have to keep evolving their way of living in order to occupy them.
This ghost village will emerge on the channels created by the channel making system which is illustrated in some of my previous drawings. the reason why the channels are the most suitable site for the emergence of the new village is that land is too volatile & crumbly and in the landslide season and it would be ideal to detach oneself from land. I don’t intend to completely relocate the villagers to water but instead the villagers can shift to water from May to September (during the landslide season) and back when the landslide season ends. This is also suitable because their farmlands are between the silk route (along which the existing dwellings are located) and the river/ water channels; thus it would not be a problem for them to go to their farms to work during the day either way.

CRISIS FURNITURE

dogville set

WAR AND ARCHITECTURE -
PAMPHLET ARCHITECTRUE 15 - PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
LEBBEUS WOODS

BUILDING EXISTENTIAL REMNANTS OF WARS:
"where ever buildings are broken by the explosion of bombs, altillery shells, by fire or structural collapse, their form must be respected as an integrity, embodying a history that must not be denied. in their damaged states they suggest new forms of thought and comprihension, and suggest a new concept of space that confirm the potential of human integrity itselfy, to be the whole and free outside of any predetermined totalizing system. the new spaces of habitation constructed on remnants of war do not celebrate the distruction of an established order, nor do they symbolize or commemorate it. rather they accept with a certain pride what has been suffered and lost, but also what has been gained. they build upon the shattered form of the old order a new catagory of order inherent only in present conditions, within which existence feels its strength , acknowledges its vulnerabilities and failures, and faces up to the need to invent itself as though for the first time, thus seizing the means to contineously refresh and revitalize itself. there is an ethical and moral commitment in such an existence, and therefore a basis for community."

INJECTIONS:
"In the spaces voided by destruction, new structures are injected. complete in themselves, they do not make exact fit, but exixt as spaces within spaces, making no attempt to reconcile the gaps between what is new and old, between two radically different systems of spatial order and of thought. these gaps can onlybe filled in time. the new structure s contain free spaces, the forms of which don not invite occupation with the oldparaphernelia of living, the iold ways of living and thinking. they are infact difficult to occupy and require inventiveness in everyday living to in order to become habitable."