Carpet-style construction

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  PUBLIC SPACE INSTALLATION / BRNO ART OPEN | 2015

Here I produced an installation of approximately five hundred minute concrete houses at Moravské Square in Brno that evoked a scaled-down version of the suburban sprawl that is currently viewed with so much criticism. I included a total of eight models of one-story houses with their own typology that multiplies and spreads out in an ornamental grid of known as carpet-style construction. From an overview as well as a side view, it illustrates a uniform field of these overstated models of satellite construction in an organic curve. The entire installation is supposed to evoke this expansive settlement issue, shifted on purpose to an aesthetic level. At first glance it disguises an obvious reference to the irreversibility of the original landscape by built-on land and the importance of creating the memory of place. Paradoxically, suburbia thus enters the downtown on which it depends, failing because it lacks the whole some city feel.