Abstract
Every encounter reshapes our perception of the constructed environment, much like the way memories are altered with each recollection. Each time a memory is reframed, it transforms visions of the past, present and future. Thus, this research analyzes various spatial cuts that could reframe urban narratives, acting as memory rifts unfolding in time. These spatial cuts expose, wrap, conceal, fragment inside-out relations, revealing other ways of repairing and remaking in-between remembering and forgetting, preserving and destructing, monument and ruin. In this context, five examples are selected for examination, spanning different disciplines and scales: SuperStudio’s Restoration of Historical Centers (cut1), Rachel Whiteread’s House (cut2), Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting (cut3), Christo Jeanne-Claude’s Arc de Triomphe (cut4), Yeesookyung’s Translated Vase (cut5). Although these practices have tactical and operational differences, they create critical alternative approaches to ongoing demolitions and renewals, revealing creative, critical, affirmative possibilities in the act of remembering. Examining examples from various disciplines, it can be said that spatial cuts afford diverse temporal and action-oriented possibilities in architecture, potentially transforming meta-narratives into everyday stories. The intervention of spatial cuts as memory rifts in urban space can contribute to a temporal and layered understanding, holding the potential to fill in missing information and reframe the future by attaching differences.
Presenters
Irem Naz Kaya AlkanResearch Assistant, Interior Design, MEF University Faculty of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Istanbul, Turkey
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design
KEYWORDS
MEMORY, ARCHITECTURE, SPATIAL CUTS, DESIGNING FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
