Exodus
Maze Studio + Raha Basiri
For the Exhibition of paintings of Iranian Architects (The Songs on the scaffolding) which Venus Glass Co was its Sponsor in 2018, two installation arts "the Tree and the Exodus" were designed, drown by digital painting, and presented with digital printing techniques on glass, was among selected works of the exhibition.
Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis 1973
"Once, a city was divided into two parts"
Of course, one part became the ‘good' half, the other part the ‘bad' half. The inhabitants of the ‘bad' half began to flock to the ‘good' part of the divided city, rapidly swelling into an urban exodus.
But after all the actions to interrupt the undesirable migration had failed, the authorities of the ‘bad' part made desperate and savage use of Architecture; they built a wall around the ‘good' part of the city, making it completely inaccessible for their subjects.
The wall was a masterpiece.
Originally, no more than some pathetic strings of barbed wire abruptly dropped on the imaginary line of the border; its psychological and symbolic effects were infinitely more powerful than its physical appearance.
Those trapped, left behind in the gloomy ‘bad' half, became obsessed with vain plans for escape.
And as often before in the history of mankind, Architecture had been instrumental in bringing this despair about.
This would be a force as intense and devastating, but applied to positive intentions."
The allotment
In this part of the strip, the inhabitants can have a small piece of land for private cultivation; they will need these to recover in privacy from the demands the intense collectivism and the communal way of life make on them. The houses on these allotments are built from the most beautiful and expensive materials - marble, chromium steel (small palaces for the people).
Papers are banned, radios mysteriously out of order, the whole concept of"news" ridiculed by the patient devotion with which the plots are plowed, scrubbed, polished, and embellished.
For the Exhibition of paintings of Iranian Architects (The Songs on the scaffolding) which Venus Glass Co was its Sponsor in 2018, two installation arts "the Tree and the Exodus" were designed, drown by digital painting, and presented with digital printing techniques on glass, was among selected works of the exhibition.
Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis 1973
"Once, a city was divided into two parts"
Of course, one part became the ‘good' half, the other part the ‘bad' half. The inhabitants of the ‘bad' half began to flock to the ‘good' part of the divided city, rapidly swelling into an urban exodus.
But after all the actions to interrupt the undesirable migration had failed, the authorities of the ‘bad' part made desperate and savage use of Architecture; they built a wall around the ‘good' part of the city, making it completely inaccessible for their subjects.
The wall was a masterpiece.
Originally, no more than some pathetic strings of barbed wire abruptly dropped on the imaginary line of the border; its psychological and symbolic effects were infinitely more powerful than its physical appearance.
Those trapped, left behind in the gloomy ‘bad' half, became obsessed with vain plans for escape.
And as often before in the history of mankind, Architecture had been instrumental in bringing this despair about.
This would be a force as intense and devastating, but applied to positive intentions."
The allotment
In this part of the strip, the inhabitants can have a small piece of land for private cultivation; they will need these to recover in privacy from the demands the intense collectivism and the communal way of life make on them. The houses on these allotments are built from the most beautiful and expensive materials - marble, chromium steel (small palaces for the people).
Papers are banned, radios mysteriously out of order, the whole concept of"news" ridiculed by the patient devotion with which the plots are plowed, scrubbed, polished, and embellished.
Project Year: 2018
