Core Design Workshop

When I first met artist Ain Rahman, I learnt of her ideology and approach to art that requires more than just wall space to exhibit. I remembered she mentioned about sense and sensibility of her works and it was then we decided to collaborate with her on one larger than life installation work for her solo exhibition, to create an architectural form, a pavilion-like-structure that stands as like a giant parasite juxtaposed against the white exhibition space. A structure that houses an immersive environment allowing the artist, with unrestricted physical limitations to push her artistic expressions beyond the usual three dimensional form.

From the architectural approach, we created a semi modular cuboid steel frame that appears hovering above the exhibition floor space and one floor sitting wall leaning three dimensionally distorted cube. Both structures are designed in seven feet length modular which can be dissembled and re-assembled for ease of logistic or transportation within spaces. The seven feet modular is rationalised from our traditional door height as the minimum requirement for a human to penetrate through the wall between two spaces. The size and arrangement of the two box forms are intentionally designed to appear oversized to the exhibition space, thus provoking a mild sense of tension to the visitors, forcibly leading them to look beyond the external outlook, to what is inside the forms rather. There is a cut-out in one of the floating corners to the cuboid where a projector will be projecting artist’s own video works onto the tunnel of the cuboid, presenting an additional layer of dimension to her multi sensory works.

Sense and sensibility, a collaborative project in hope to extend possibilities in searching for new approach to creativities. The objective is not to evaluate the types of approach to creativity, but to explore new possibilities and to rediscover their relevance and importance in both the contexts of contemporary architecture and art.