EASA 1:1
A 1:1 model does a really good job of simulating all intemperies, negligence, interests and wishes of people for whom the space is relevant. It reproduces so accurately the existing site that it makes enough space for all considerations. Considering architecture to be a slow adapting industry, EASA 1:1 was a 2 week summer assembly where we asked architecture students to imagine themselves around a surface, similar to the one depicted in Jorge Borges’ story about a 1:1 map, and see the implications of architectural intentions done at the real-life scale. Quickly prototyped surfaces took a life of their own afterwards, muddling the distinction between what was the representation and what was the reality.
Participants were gifted each a metre( endearingly called that as it was actually a tailors’ 1,5m) . The poster was folded, crinkled, rained on, crumpled. The booklet became a measuring unit itself, the colours reflecting the high contrast of yellow and black, usually found on measuring tools. Inside the booklet there were changing background grids, making the flipping of the book feel like infinite zooming into a CAD software. Other witty puns and ways of using measurements spruced quickly thereafter.
Project sponsored by Globalworth Foundation, SIAD, Scaffold Romania, and One United Properties.
EASA Romania Project team: Andreea Samoilă, Ioana Rădulescu, Iana Stoide, Teodor David, Theodora Cișmașu, with help from Diana Zărnescu, Dragoș Ghioca, Andra Hrenciuc
© Photographs by Tomáš Volejník, Václav Pošmourný, Martina Peneva, Barbara Arita, Johan Reeh and Ogbonna Gabriel
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