Wooyoung Kim

Pontoon Dock urban ensemble

Observations of the ordinary objects in Giorgio Morandi’s 1956 still life, and the arrangement of box pews in St. Mary’s Church Whitby formed the motifs for the project. Drawn and photographic records of these motifs were translated into the proposal of urban compositions.

The main intention of the project is to develop the northwest area into a dense urban composition and leave the rest of the site as empty as possible, in order to maintain the character of Docklands. As in the Mosque-Cathedral in Cordoba, an urban ensemble of two opposite spaces is proposed. One is a vertical space, which is a large family of high-rise buildings and the other is horizontal, which is low-rise buildings spread widely over the southern perimeter of the site.

“They are not rhythms and tones and atmosphere, or rather they are all this, but in an organization of an artistic image that can be ideally reconstructed in a plan (…) and various elevations and horizontal and oblique vertical sections in a synthesis that, once it is critically taken apart, offers the viewer the huge capacity of a construction that, as I was saying, is so entirely architectural that we should speak of cathedrals rather than bottles.”

Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, writing about the paintings of Giorgio Morandi, Arte Moderna in una Raccolta Italiana, April-May 19

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