Deconstruction in Tasmanian New Heritage Architecture

IF 0.3 4区艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE

METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/13602365.2023.2205427

Andrew P. Steen

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The literary-philosophical practice of deconstruction has suffered abuse in architectural discourse for decades. Popularised interpretations of metaphor-heavy and art-referencing iconic architecture have undermined the potential of an exercise that holds potential for much insight. This paper looks to recover some of that potential burnt out in flagrant forms and beaten down in opaque missives of discursive deliria. Deconstruction is not, however, the object under consideration, but rather the device through which it operates. The object of this paper is Architecture built onto and into existing Heritage fabric. The Architecture — Captain Kelly’s Cottage (2018) by John Wardle Architects; Bozen’s Cottage (2019) by Taylor and Hinds; and Install House (2019) by Partners Hill — is all found on the small island of Tasmania. These powerful works are celebrated for their object status and their adroit condensations of peoples and contexts, as well as the historical and the contemporary. They are given gravity by a weight of facts and accounts of history, highlighted by age-value remnants and exquisitely crafted interventions. Captain Kelly’s Cottage, Bozen’s Cottage, and Install House are positioned in this paper as manifesting deconstruction. This paper does not claim that their architects designed with deconstruction in mind, rather that the intrinsic parameters of their architectural complexes implicate aporia, and that the interventions can be read to develop the potentials these aporia offer. Further, this paper suggests the practice of Heritage-related Architecture as translation and conversions that inherently affords potential for deconstruction in design and interpretation. This paper, thus, reframes deconstruction in Architecture, establishing a more appropriate and pertinent location in discourse on Heritage-related work. At the same time, it offers its readers a translation of deconstruction into Architecture theory-criticism as material construction.

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塔斯马尼亚新遗产建筑中的解构主义

几十年来，解构主义的文学哲学实践在建筑话语中遭到了滥用。对隐喻和艺术参考的标志性建筑的流行解释破坏了一个具有潜在洞察力的练习的潜力。这篇文章试图以明目张胆的形式恢复一些被烧毁的潜力，并以不透明的话语性谵妄的信件进行打击。然而，解构不是被考虑的对象，而是它运作的装置。本文的研究对象是建立在现有遗产织物上的建筑。建筑——凯利船长的小屋(2018)，John Wardle Architects;泰勒和海因兹的《博岑的小屋》(2019);和由Partners Hill设计的Install House(2019)——都是在塔斯马尼亚岛的小岛上发现的。这些强大的作品以其客体地位和对人物和背景以及历史和当代的巧妙凝聚而闻名。它们被大量的事实和历史记载赋予了分量，年龄价值的残余和精心设计的干预突出了它们的重要性。Captain Kelly’s Cottage、Bozen’s Cottage和Install House在本文中被定位为解构主义的体现。这篇论文并没有声称他们的建筑师在设计时考虑到解构主义，而是说他们的建筑综合体的内在参数隐含着不安，并且可以通过解读干预来开发这些不安所提供的潜力。此外，本文认为遗产相关建筑的实践作为一种翻译和转换，在设计和解释中具有解构的潜力。因此，本文重新定义了建筑学中的解构主义，在遗产相关工作的话语中建立了一个更合适、更有针对性的位置。同时，它为读者提供了一种将解构主义翻译为建筑理论批评的材料建构。

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