Time and Space
Journey 3
Diagram ↔
Material
Collage →
After exploring in more detail about the characteristics of some historic buildings in Melbourne in journey 2. Journey 3 starts to find the connections between historical and contemporary space through time and space experiments.
Breaking Time Down
Just like Daniel Crooks's Static No.16, this experiment splits the Melbourne space into historical and contemporary periods, then collage them to explore new space.
Site: State Library Victoria
Static NO.16
Daniel Crooks
Video, 04:33 min
16:9, 1080p24, Stereo
2010
Site: Flinders Street Railway Station
Texture from Melbourne city
Deconstruct space
From precedents that inspire me deconstruction is also a way to create new spaces. So I extracted the unique materials and structures in the historic space of Melbourne in the experiment to recreate.
Site: Flinders Street Railway Station
Site: State Library Victoria
Site: Nicholas Building
Paper Burning
Chemistry experiment about the coexistence through the deconstruction.
Burning paper with fire.
20 same size, volume, and quality. To see the changing of forms.
Burning
Ash
Before the experiment, I expect ashes will be similar. After this experiment, they show different forms,
Only two pieces of paper were burned out.
One piece of paper burned and gone by the wind. Some burning track was only one corner.
Some burning track was the center.
Every piece of paper was smaller after burning. Then I found each of them turns to the ash and carbon dioxide, they still exist in the space.
​Coexist with ice
Melting
Rain Ice-out
After this experiment, I found these particular ice melt took about 20-25 minutes. However, in the end, they show different forms:
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Water ice back to its original form.
Vinegar ice left its smell and color.
Sugar ice and salt ice seem like water.
Starch ice turned to solid.
Paper and iron wire ice did not change.
Some objects have changed form over time, some are not.
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Objects coexist with water and ice.
In this experiment, the rain left from the external surface of the apartment was dripped into a mineral water bottle on my balcony on April 2, 2020. After the rain stopped, I froze the collecting rain. On the second day, I put the frozen rain back on the balcony floor and watched it melt.
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Collecting rain
Ice-out
Tracing
The rainwater belongs to Melbourne, and can also be regarded as forming part of Melbourne. Whether it is left on the surface of the apartment, frozen into ice, or finally evaporated. Even though it has different shapes, it has not changed and disappeared from Melbourne. As part of forming Melbourne, rainwater always exists in Melbourne. Even though it has a different shape, it has not changed and disappeared from Melbourne.
Reflection
From these journeys, I realized that using these techniques to make the connection between historical and contemporary interior space not only improved the space but more importantly, the design improved people's awareness of the surrounding environment, culture, and memory.