Stage 1
Work presented below shows the first year at Central Saint Martins and varies from sculpture to architectural proposals.
The Sound 0 – 1 project is based on a idea of recording, listening and visualising sound around particular area in London – Columbia Road. The inspiration for the programme and the user of the building originates from a trip to Istanbul in Turkey. In the old city of Istanbul, in the odd place, on the top of the roof of some building, I have found an old and forgotten, quite large, weaving machine, which seemed to be abandoned in a hurry. Through this and other inspirations, which focused of sound behaviour in mosques and sound in the streets, taken from Istanbul I have created a specific process in my building, which includes the flying platform suspended above the whole building as well as the Columbia Road area, where the recording of sound takes place, through images of the sound recorded on the punched cards. The punched cards are then at dawn, delivered through the archive in the basement to the weaving machine on the first floor, which reads the information from the punched cards and transforms it to the weaved image of sound. Then the chosen weaved image, after the inspection of my user is transported to the unweaving machine, on the second floor, which through the unweaving process creates a sound and delivers it to the studio, where the user can listen to it and play the chosen sound outside to the public. That is quite a vital moment, where the spectators gather around the building to listen to his recordings during dusk and then later at night to see the magnificent launch of the flying platform, which again records the sound throughout the night. The building as a whole is focused on closed cycles and the machines working in harmony, where the living spaces are arranged around it to emphasise the importance of sound and it visualisation. The building explores the idea of creating a sense of community which is also fascinated with sound and wants to explore it and not only hear it but also see it. When designing the building I focused on different machines and how they could actually work. The building may be treated as a focal point in the Brick Lane area, where all sounds and noises come together creating completely new space. Through this project I wanted to explore the mysterious aspect of visualising sound, which I became fascinated with at the beginning of the first year of studies.
