WB - LFA, London, UK, 2007

An installation in an empty office space

"Form acts as though it is the shaper and master of space, while in fact space remains the master of form" Niko Japaridze

Fact Sheet

Project: installation in the empty office sace
Location - Former EPR Architects Office, 21 Douglas Street, London, UK
Budget - 60 GBP
Matter - black bin bags, tape, sccisors, air pump
Length - 63 metres

The Topic - To explore the relationship of contradictory immaterialism.

Credits
Niko Japaridze, Christopher Smith

Brief
Architecture allows spaces to be defined and utilised. Architectural practice is concerned with these predilections, and its realisation occurs directly in space. The nature of surrounding space is populated by persons and objects
which make spaces unique. Towards the end of last year, the architectural practice that we work for moved from their premises of over twenty years. The spaces and their
utilisation had evolved over time and finally became defunct to its inhabitants. Change was necessary to allow for new progress. This retraction led to an awareness of the space that we had always associated with work becoming a new entity. The enclosure of the space became re-opened to new opportunities of definition. The final architectural act of space and form was to explore this.
The inanimate materials of a building are essentially dead unless they are inhabited and facilitate this occurrence. Through the breath of life of such substances allows dynamic attachments to space. The death of work became intrinsically linked to the purpose of the intervention. The absence of colour, mourning black, absorbs the light and existing substance; defining the form
into contradictory immaterialism. Air fills the form and begins to grow and expand. It is free to move and to
define itself liberally. The fluidity of form is a comment on the structural rigid entropy of normative architectural design. The inanimate object contorts itself
into a variety of forms constantly struggling against its boundaries. The limitations are concurrent with the acts of architectural creation, terminating the attachment of the former space. The form will always be subservient to its
boundaries, irrespective of its nature and possibility.