philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
Penn Design
Critic: Ferda KOLATAN & Michael ZIMMERMAN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Andrew HOMICK and Yiren WENG: Located in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, this project reimagines the ruins as something generic; not special at all, implementing a new role for the Tophane Barracks.
- Andrew HOMICK and Yiren WENG, “Machine In The Garden.”, Perspective
- /Andrew HOMICK and Yiren WENG, “Machine In The Garden.”, Perspective
- Andrew HOMICK and Yiren WENG, “Machine In The Garden.”, Perspective
- Andrew HOMICK and Yiren WENG, “Machine In The Garden.”, Perspective
- Andrew HOMICK and Yiren WENG, “Machine In The Garden.”, Model Photo
- Andrew HOMICK and Yiren WENG, “Machine In The Garden.”, Model Photo
It is mundane, sometimes revealed as a storefront or some other form of normative architecture, that draws from the idea of continuity. It solely takes advantage of the top of the park as an opportunity to design a new garden landscape that begins to take on the ruinous elements with a slight twist, spinning them into a new formal expression. The project implies a close reading of objects that start to reveal existing plans as well as ruins, that have been both extruded and modeled within the context of Istanbul. Machine in the Garden deals with a notion of thickness that undermines the seamless fusing together of machine parts with architectural artifacts — creating a series of spatialized hybrids that are found beneath the garden.
sP: What or who Influenced this project?
AH & YW: Ferda Kolatan, Donna Haraway’s notion of Oddkin
sP: What were you reading/listening to/ watching while developing this project?
AH & YW: Reading The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx, Listening to Daniel Caesar and ODIE, Watching Black Mirror
sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?
AH & YW: Gilles Retsin, Francis Bitonti, and Virgil Abloh
