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| Domain Hill Property Group Pty.Ltd |
‘2 Girls Building" is a mixed use development is a polemic that fuses art, photography and architecture. The project explores the relationship between the three disciplines and blurs their respective boundaries resulting in one craft overlapping and appropriating the others characteristics in the form of a new medium. As a result photography appropriates architectural materiality and photography shifts into the architectural space of the third dimension. Architecture becomes photography, photography becomes architecture and the building becomes a hybrid urban artifact within the built environment. The subject matter of the photograph is embossed into the concrete, has various opacities/translucencies applied and the components of the composition such as the lamp are constructed in the third dimension. This operation enabled the flat veneer of the building to take on a textural and articulated quality.
KUD collaborated with Melbourne Artist Samantha Everton during the design process. The “Masquerade” that features on the facade from Everton’s ‘Vintage Dolls’ series, was specifically selected for its familiar vernacular in its subject matter which is synonymous with inner city traditional domestic spaces and more importantly for the drama and theatre it provides to the public realm. The primary circulation space in the program doubles up as a de facto art gallery with art works on display dividing the offices, warehouse space and residential apartments.
The collaboration injected another layer of complexity; unintentionally exchanging and swapping the roll of the architect to artist and the artist to architect. An unintentional but subconscious irony and reminder manifested in the design process. The boundaries of the alliance were blurred into each other redefining ‘The Artist’ and ‘The Architect’ as one expression. This synergy spawned a hybrid typology and ensured that the photo-archi-art prevailed.
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