Keunhye Lee
Parade Ground Project, 2012
/ Competition for MA Interior & Spatial Design of Chelsea College of Arts
with PhD Architecture Engineering from UCL
'parade ground project' is a collaborative work by MA ISD, working with PhD researchers from UCL. The aim of this project is to develop spatial and architecture platform engaging various knowledges of technology or engineering for the Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Arts.
We particularly feel that that is the big challenge facing engineering, and engineers of sustainable and resilient city systems: they have to both capture the data, but then also mine it and interpret is in order to know what to do with that data.
It’s an interactive piece.
When the group first sat down to come up with ideas, we started talking about sound, and really quickly got really excited about using sound to share and translate some of those issues of complexity and trying to make sense of information that you’re receiving. Because sound is able to say and reflect a lot about data: both are invisible, but surround us at all times.
And both shape the spaces around it, but people are never aware of it, until a designer or an engineer constructs something that draws attention to their presence with both sound and data you become more aware of them once you start looking for them, and what really initiated the momentum for this design, was when we were experimenting of sorts with a tube.
Bilateral, looped relationship
It’s about listening and communicating
Trying to capture what is already there.
