No Flying Machine
monument to the Wright Brothers
summer studio 2016 | ucl bartlett school of architecture;
faculty: Thomas Hilier, Pascal Bronner; studio co-ordinator: sabine storp
Synopsis
This project is an exercise devoid of traditional architectural boundaries of site, function, standards and construction. It is a monument to the memory of the extraordinary invention of the Wright Brothers recounting the life events and their accomplishments abstracted as architectonic objects that led to the first flight.
The events that led to the first flight have been abstracted into tectonic objects as characters on a map of these events. This is referencing John Hejduk’s ‘Victims’ (below).
John Hejduk’s Victims
“Victims” is the title of John Hejduk‘s entry for the 1984 Prinz-Albert-Palais competition in Berlin for the construction of a memorial park. The site of intervention is a former Gestapo headquarter adjoining the Berlin Wall, which contained a torture chamber employed during WWII.
An imagination born out of memory and signs, this project’s philosophy of articulating thought as an architectural object is referenced in the making of ‘No Flying Machine’.
