a shelter for artist / arte sella, 2019
+ Alison Bartlett
I invite you to suspend yourself between the known and unknown, between realities and fantasies to navigate architecture’s role in liminal space. Within this threshold, preconceptions and boundaries are dissolved, enabling reflectance on the past to serve as foundations for unprecedented futures. A transformation occurs, fuzzy edges take form, permeability forges new paths, habits, idiosyncrasies. Indeterminacy is seen as an opportunity, even (dare I say) freedom.
“What is it, what is it,
But a direction out there,
And the bare possibility
Of going somewhere?”
[An excerpt from Henry David Throeau’s 1862 essay, ‘Walking’]
While, programmatically, this serves as a shelter for visiting artists, it is a living entity unto itself to inspire introspection and perspective. The form follows a minimal surface geometry that is inherently structural and allows for formal diversity with a minimal footprint and material use.
Situated in two different sites, they are positioned to benefit from the celestial skies and solar angles to remind the viewer of the greater cosmic dramas at play and to inspire action that harmonizes with the unplanned rhythms of the universe.
