This Project achieved First in Course Award ARCHDES300.
D5: A House for an Artist - Marcel Duchamp, Tutor: Matt Liggins. Semester One, 2020
Design 5 was my largest-scale project yet, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of the ridiculous workload may have been my own doing! Tasked with designing a house within NZ for the visionary conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, it was never going to be *that* easy. A seemingly simple, yet incredibly complex mind; the intellect of this man simply cannot be understated. Attempting to tap into the mind of a speaker of several languages, a writer, sculptor, professional chess player, cross-dresser, atheist, introvert, comedian, painter, philosopher and blatantly-controversial genius was a challenge to say the least: This man could do it all, and my architecture needed to somehow facilitate all of that. To summarise:
I built two sites for him: An Urban site that was deeply embedded in the conceptual art scene of K-Road, and a rural site in Horopito that gave isolation, resources and space.
The rural site split his needs into four individual structures upon a large plot of land facing Mt Ruapehu: Living, Making, Guest-Space and Isolation. The Horopito site, chosen for its' close proximity to 'Smash Palace' - a Junkyard where Duchamp could collect all his readymade material needs for his art - allowed absolute isolation from the public art scene, and anyone else for that matter. For further isolation and respect to the landscape, three of the four structures are subterranean, ensuring that Duchamp can go on making in peace.
For the rest of this project, including Initial Models and an Urban Site, click below.