Perspective showing the reflective structure and transparent walls creating a liminal space where the viewer is drawn in by the depth and simultaneously ejected by their reflected surroundings.
Perspective showing the reflective structure and transparent walls creating a liminal space where the viewer is drawn in by the depth and simultaneously ejected by their reflected surroundings.
Liminality of a Truck Stop
Looking at how the contemporary means of production are defining our cities in relation to Massimo Cacciari’s theory of the Metropolis, the truck stop acts as an optical study in liminality between the relationship of a city and the contemporary means of production. The metropolis is no longer defined by the cities separation from factories and industrial areas, but from data centers and distribution networks, as these are the methods in which industry is defined in modern America. The truck stop lies at the cusp of the metropolis and these contemporary means of production making it neither nor, rather the liminal space between. Defined by the canopy, the liminal truck stop does not define space, rather it facilitates the interchange of spaces and programs in this liminal moment between origin and destination; neither stopping nor going. Occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. The reflective nature of the structure composed next with the transparency of the glass allows it to disappear in the landscape from afar, but when occupied the patron is both drawn and optically rejected from the space, exemplifying the liminal qualities of the this uncertain typology.
Fall 2019, GSAPP Advanced Five Studio
Michael Bell
Mondrian Canopy Model fabricated with soldered rods and translucent colored acrylic showcasing the nature of projected delineation of space.
Mondrian Canopy Model fabricated with soldered rods and translucent colored acrylic showcasing the nature of projected delineation of space.
Perspective showing the reflective structure and transparent walls creating a liminal space where the viewer is drawn in by the depth and simultaneously ejected by their reflected surroundings.
Perspective showing the reflective structure and transparent walls creating a liminal space where the viewer is drawn in by the depth and simultaneously ejected by their reflected surroundings.
Perspective showing the reflective structure and transparent walls creating a liminal space where the viewer is drawn in by the depth and simultaneously ejected by their reflected surroundings.
Perspective showing the reflective structure and transparent walls creating a liminal space where the viewer is drawn in by the depth and simultaneously ejected by their reflected surroundings.
Perspective showing the reflective structure and transparent walls creating a liminal space where the viewer is drawn in by the depth and simultaneously ejected by their reflected surroundings.
Perspective showing the reflective structure and transparent walls creating a liminal space where the viewer is drawn in by the depth and simultaneously ejected by their reflected surroundings.
Perspective illustrating how throughout the day the project both blends into it's surroundings as well as exposes itself depending on the light.
Perspective illustrating how throughout the day the project both blends into it's surroundings as well as exposes itself depending on the light.
Perspective illustrating how throughout the day the project both blends into it's surroundings as well as exposes itself depending on the light.
Perspective illustrating how throughout the day the project both blends into it's surroundings as well as exposes itself depending on the light.
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