Guallart’s Artificial Mountains
August 26, 2008
Vicente Guallart’s work consistently seeks to introduce new geologically inspired forms into the built infrastructure of the city. On his website you will find a selection on his amazing proposals using architectural metaphors that deal with the digital, the natural, and the artificial. I his own words: “My projects explore people’s capacity to construct an inhabitable environment by assuming this new three-way interaction. Starting from the hypothesis that the end purpose of architecture is not (solely) to build but also to define environments where human life can be organized, I work as much through action as through omission ; with stones as well as with glass and “bits” ; in urban and rural territories ; and in the physical and virtual worlds.”
I think you should take a look to the glossary included on his list of projects “Dictionary of Advanced Architecture”
More on Vicente Guallard
(images from The re-naturalization of territory by Vicente Guallart.)
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