Moratorium Space

Moratorium Space is the core project of my research, out of which new knowledge production occurs, which serves as imput for (1) my other research work and publications, (2) my contribution to my research group The Drawing and the Space, (3) the PhD's that I (co-supervise, (4) mijn research based educational program (ADO's), and my contributions to universities abroad, conferecnes, consortia, ...

Motatorium Space is my overarching research project that I do with my own resources (materially and financially), in which I investigate a number of cases of (1) speculative projects (hypoteses) and (2) real transformation projects in my own built patrimonium, including the surrounding walled gardens, orchards and the landscape, embarking on this research from the topography and relics in the landscape.

My research through and on innovative drawing methods (Chronological Drawing, X-Ray-Drawing), that I have developed through my own research, is aplied on these research cases and refined in cycles of Critical Sequential Drawing (CSD). By means of these drawing methods this research focuses on the agency of (1) the architectural fragment in better understanding the mereological connections between the architectural whole (starting from the landscape) and the architectural detail (different scales of architecture), (2) phenomenological materialisation and (3) physical embodiment, starting from and situated in relics in the landscape that are included in the research by means of cartography and topograpical sections.

By means of these research cases I will further investigate the following topics, that are already in an embryonal development, i.e. (1) Homesickness, (2) Hortus Conclusus, (3) Dialectical Cartography, (4) the mereological role of 'the fragment' between 'the whole' and 'the detail', and (5) Corporeality in architecture.

With this project I want to (1) callibtrate the format of architectural criticism through reflection by design, in the way of the 'Paper Architects' in the Soviet Union in the 1970's (Alexandr Brodsky, Ilya Utkin, et.al.), who "... began producing visionary schemes in response to a bleak professional scene in which only artless and ill-conceived buildings, diluted through numerous bureaucratic strata and constructed out of poor materials by unskilled laborers, were being erected-if anything” (1991, 2003: Brodsky & Utkin, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, P.7), and (2) further develop this format by bringing these reflections through design in a dialectical process with written refelctions (verbalisation).

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