Studio Visit: Thomas Glassford House Studio
June 29, 2016
How to cultivate the natural within a high urban environment? A traditional shell structure ruin is a healthy anchor to grow a biotope; fluidity of additions to an existing colonial reef. Spores spawning forms. Design as an organic current that allows existing structures to anchor new growth and to accommodate the flow. A fertile place to germinate in.
Circulation and balance within the slightly broken angularity of the quadrilateral plane in space keeps the mind agile. Step up step down, recycle around. The broken heights of the original shell gets interlacing platforms to reconnect and promote a cascade of the structure to the visual focus of the neighboring canopy of trees beyond. With gyration and dissemination as a living experience, the collective house is in different levels of sedimentation, a vessel and extension to the aquatic.
ABOUT STUDIO INTERLUDES: How does architectural space influence artistic production and vice-versa? This is the question to be examined by means of a series of visits to the homes and studios of leading Mexican artists. Each event literally evolves in situ, with a specific character arising from the personality of the space visited, and of the person who inhabits it. This series establishes a conceptual link between the traditional journeys made by modern architects to visit emblematic works from antiquity, and the contemporary practice of studio visits.
