URBAN EROSION
Kitsch Prothesis
Kitsch Prothesis
Urban Erosion is a phenomenon where parts of the city start eroding by an unknown factor, by something unseen. The erosion happens instantly, therefore interrupting the norm, the fact that erosion needs time.
It immitates the forms of rocks that get destroyed by the sea, but it accumulates these forms in a single event, thus creating an optical illusion, an unnatural effect that cannot happen normally, that cannot be mimicked.
Kitsch is the exaggeration;
Kitsch is the unnatural prosthesis in the city, the deviation from the norm, the interruption of time and place.
It immitates the forms of rocks that get destroyed by the sea, but it accumulates these forms in a single event, thus creating an optical illusion, an unnatural effect that cannot happen normally, that cannot be mimicked.
Kitsch is the exaggeration;
Kitsch is the unnatural prosthesis in the city, the deviation from the norm, the interruption of time and place.
Workshop // Advanced Architectural Design Workshop
Tutors // Nefeli Chatzimina, E. Carcamo // XAtelier Architects
Place // Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Summer 2013
Tutors // Nefeli Chatzimina, E. Carcamo // XAtelier Architects
Place // Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Summer 2013