The ‘Monograph studio’ required the design of our house and its Monograph as complementary manifestations of our very personal and persisting ideas. The ‘Monograph Studio’ forced us to develop a method of discourse, design, and material practice instead of a mere artifact of software. Those strategies required the book format, in which there is a seemingly unavoidable narrative and tangible sequence, embedded in the logic of the physical object.

The ‘House of Absence’- The book ‘Un Coup’.

The idea of this work is that space is not a pragmatic one. The impression of absence could be stronger than presence.
Absence is not about missing things. It is about imprecise identity, program or meaning. Such useless space is a space for incomplete understanding, for bittersweet freedom.
The house is designed as a frozen result of a struggle, a still of silence. An upset volume is closer to nature and painting, since geometry is actual when it has no strict outline. Light and view intrude the house obeying on the rhythm of silent music and disturbing geometry. The silent music of space structures absence and the house.
Cutting and stacking glass panes result in the overall house, forming in parallel rooms, stairs, windows and walls.
An ambiguous material can be more revealing. A glass pane and a polar bear hair are both transparent in full length/surface and almost opaque in section. The transparent sides of the stacked glass panes reveal the two dimensionality of the intentionally designed upset contour of interior space. The almost opaque sides reveal the three dimensionality of a captured volume while tracing the struggle of design.
The translucent skin’s thickness filters light and eliminates shadows. Timelessness prevails in the interior.
The mediums used to design both house and monograph are writing, photography, modeling and drawing.


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