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The Liquid Ether
An exploration into water as a medium for creating architecture. The project culminated in a two-fold final outcome; a long-term proposal for a gallery space and a water-cleaning laboratory vessel intended for the River Thames and a temporal ice installation on the river bank.
The concept of creating an enduring legacy through physical presence led to the development of an ice sculpture that sparks a commentary surrounding permanence in historic architecture and the notion of monumentalising the past amidst climate change.
The Bubbles that Hold us Together
The gentlest of stereotomic acts can irreversibly expand space. This project looked at the act of bread making though different lenses and scales. For many, bread is a commodity that provides a speedy lunch, but for bakers, the acts of feeding, rising, kneading, and baking form part of a careful ritual. The project culminates in a participatory installation that invites participants to revolt against constant-productivity imaginaries, through intimate acts of co-creation.
Emilia Bryce, Henry Galano, Y2, 'The Liquid Ether'.
Emilia Bryce, Mihaela Suciu, Y2, 'The Bubbles that Hold us Together'.
Differences in sample colour and opacity [all taken 06.11.2021] were hypothesized to be a joint function of the water turbidity of the Thames (as a tidal body) and the disparities in water cleanliness and bank materiality across the 12 locations.
Design and Creative Practice II
Ice sculpture installed on the Southbank of the River Thames. Photographs by Henry Galano.
Design and Creative Practice II
Manufactured and natural horizons collide while ice sculpture slowly melts to blur this boundary.
A set of photographs showing research, sketches and material tests made in preparation for the final installation in Gordon Square.
Final installation in Gordon square. Paper exhibit expands as public knead dough to mimic the rising sensation of expanding bread and inhaling fresh air. Photograph by Mahika Gautam.