christina strid

ARCHITECTURE AND THE PLACE IT RESIDES

Installation art has a direct relationship between the site and fabrication of the work. Architectural installations transform spatial conditions with site-specific interventions. Installations have an ability to convert conceptual ideas and symbolize them in the physical realm. Rather than most art pieces, architectural pieces involve a wider range of the sense and some even deal with the physicality of the body. The subject that will inhabit and move through the place will have an interaction with the object. The participation of the subject is very essential to understanding the experimental component of the installation. The generative forms from the site are an imperative element used in order for the architect’s idea to be expressed clearly.

This Graduate studio was structured as a collaborative fabrication course, which took on the task of building a full-scale installation piece in the Lobby Space of the Ira Allen Building on Wentworth Institute of Technology's campus. Our class needed to shape the existing place through different materials, mediums, and tectonic assemblies. After much prototyping, the final design was a interactive paracord string installation.