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Context:
Ephemeral Museum, 2012
description:
Light installation on the 20-storey façade of Fitzroy’s high-rise Atherton Gardens Estate, Melbourne
CONCEPT:
What is ephemeral architecture?
Buildings Distinguished by temporal means
Le Corbusier's modular man Reference to brutalist building design The proportions of the human body in architecture Design based on measurements in nature
To transform housing estate buildings into a monument to international art museums and architecture - A changing, temporary museum - Humanising architecture
The site as a museum, using superimpositions the history of architecture:
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, Frank Gehry Yale psychiatric institute, Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Milà La Pedrera, Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House, Centre Pompidou Renzo Piano and Richard Roger
ON THE SITE, Housing Commission of Victoria 1960s and 1971 Locally pre-fabricated concrete buildings.
Replaced over 260 houses with brutalist architecture Towers of innovative cultures and diverse communities
technical:
Transparency film 2 X Pani large format slide projectors
projected by:
projectionteknik for the Gertrude Street projection festival
Photograph: James Morgan