Facade Terminus 

 

How do we render architecture autonomous? I believe the answer to this question lies by challenging the way in which we exhibit architecture, the depository which houses the collection abstracts the image the façade from the urban and temporal context and therefore renders it autonomous. Allowing the façade to be challenged in impossible ways, both in urban simulations and its physical form. Ultimately I am not exhibiting facades, I am exhibiting life of an architectural space or an image, from the creation of an idea to its realization. The depository embraces construction it celebrates demolition

 

The Depository provides a new experience, challenging the current way of exhibiting architecture, showing not singular facades as an object, but demonstrating the process which subjects the element to a constant cycle of re-invention preserving Berlin’s most important quality, the ability to reinvent itself. While the city becomes the platform for exchange, where the facade is an actor in a spectacle of movement, being dragged through streets, interacting with architecture, shifting on S-Bahn and stealing ladies attention. The facade acquires its ultimate dynamic form and seizes to be an image becoming architecture. The old facade as it was used to be known dies but a new form of representation comes to life.