Tropicality: An Architectural Association Visting School
Saturday, Aug 1, 20158:23 PM — Tuesday, Aug 18, 20158:23 PMEDT
| London - San Jose, Costa Rica
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Our immersion into Costa Rica will begin on the first day with a pilgrimage, or Romeria, to the Basilica of La Virgen de Los Angeles. A small indigenous figurine carved in black wood was found by a native woman at the site of the Basilica on the same day, 370 years ago. Legend has it, that she took the statue to her home several times, but each time it disappeared, miraculously reappearing at its origin. We will see the same figurine enshrined at the destination of the Pilgrimage. This story, not unlike many others which we will encounter, is interwoven within magic realism, and the eccentricities of this unique place. Tropicality is a new visiting school programme which seeks to exfoliate the seeming to expose patterns and resistance in tropical dwelling through architectural stories about home, culture and place. During the course of the two week workshop, students will make a short film as a narrative composition of images (form, space, light, colour, materiality) and sound (voice, story, city, nature). This film intended to become a unique and perceptive form of architectural construct. Students will work alongside tutors to formulate interview questions and set out to rouse and record the stories and experiences of those who live there. Based on observations, insights and documented stories, you will then compose your own story about architecture, domesticity and place, devising a diagram and drawing as a plan of action to then record and film sound and images of people, houses, streets, neighbourhoods and the city. Editing together of the collected images and sound into film will evolve through conversation with tutors. The purpose of this workshop as an experiment is to cultivate extraordinary design insights, hone your compositional abilities as a designer and to refresh an architectural sensitivity and sensibility to the interrelationships of material organisations, space, and human perception and reaction. For more information please go to: http://tropicality.aaschool.ac.uk/ http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/costarica
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