Agenda

17.05.14

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE

SPEED TRIP — BRUSSELS PARKING GARAGE DERIVE

Architecture & urbanisme Quartier

departure 13:00
free

Congrès (gare)

38 boulevard Pacheco
1000 Bruxelles
Accès

PSFA needs a school trip. In our time, and especially in our city, parking garages are both hated and loved, booming and going extinct. Black holes, back rooms. Invisible monsters and aggressively inspiring architectural artefacts. Air pockets and sign systems. Panoramic in oblivion.

SPEED TRIP: BRUSSELS PARKING GARAGE DERIVE proposes a carpool daytrip around town, in which we stitch together a route via both Brussels' well-known and its more exotic parking garages. Each participant suggests a specific garage or parking lot in preparation; a map will be drawn and a route calculated. Participants will share cars and document the disconnected nodes along the way.

Usually, an entry ticket to a garage grants you a fifteen minute timeframe in which you can drive off again - not having found a decent spot to park. These free moments - and the drive soundtrack - will decide the pace of the trip.

This SPEED TRIP is part of a research project called SPEED SPACE, in which I look at the relation between speed and the way the practice and it's architecture are shaped and informed by an increasingly themed, spectacular, and accelerated society. The changes I look into happen both on the level of mediation (blog culture, archi-pornography), and theory as well as styles and form (non-stop remix, microfutures, the hyperreal).

SPEED TRIPPERS travel through the city from site to site, all of which have been chosen by the group because of their relationship to the themes mentioned above. Buildings and realities that bear witness of these transformations, that play an important role, or have at one point been touched by speed and are already 'cooled down' again. Each participant will use one mode of equally fast and superficial documentation (tweets, haiku's, vine, etc) and the total sum of all these will be compiled to constitute a portrait of the city; incomplete, speculative, superficial, open to change. I namely believe that 'superficialism' could, when well equipped and fit, be put to use for the making of scenarios and complex productions as well as more in depth, slower methods.

The PARKING GARAGE DERIVE seems a suitable sequel to previous Beijing, Las Vegas and L.A. bifurcations. In one of the smallest but again most congested capitals in Europe, the proper surface treatment could be to kill your darlings, love the asphalt, accelerate and shine (to the beat).

Tags : Promenade

Ajouter à mon calendrier

← Retour

News