rocks and sefffa
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Rocks and SeaPascal Flammer
QuidinishIsle of HarrisScotland
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This building is about the perception of the two dominant landscapes
on the island and a proposal to create a tailored space for both. Sea:
we can experience the shore as a reality, however, we continually try,
and fail, to grasp the full extent of the ocean; we can only picture its
entirety in our head, as a fantasy. Our experience of the sea is therefore
an inspiring and uncanny duality of the actual and the imagined. Facing
this landscape we propose the creation of the most artificial physical
space - the circle; precisely cut in half. Rocks: without claiming that we
‘know more’ about rocks than the ocean, their psychological condition
is nevertheless fundamentally different if not oppositional. Rocks
seem calm, their endless and slightly modulated repetition confirms
our perception of flesh and ‘physis’; the corpus of nature. The space
facing this phenomenon is also circular but only defines a boundary to
give presence to a random area of rocks. The house participates almost
accidentally as a fragment of that space.
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© copyright 2014
Pascal Flammer Architect
Römerstrasse 24, 4710 Balsthal, Switzerland
+41(0)445 589 809
www.pascalammer.com
Collaborators: Yushi Sasada, Giulia Furlan
Pascal Flammer studied architecture at the ETH Zurich,Lausanne, TU Delft and travelled extensively in Europe,
South America as well as the Middle and Far East. He
opened his practice in 2005 and has won several national
and international awards. Pascal gained his experience
through his time at Valerio Olgiati, where he worked
from 1998 until 2005. He has taught at the Accademia
di Architettura di Mendrisio, the GSD at Harvard
University and at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam.
He is currently teaching at the ETH Zurich.