Sunday, July 27, 2008

IDEA Sven´s PAOworm

I really do appreciate all ideas that have come so far, but, I beg your very pardon, it's architecture. PAO, for me, is making something seem what it's not and being something what it seemingly never could be. pao is the very ancient art of throwing a billion stones but never ever coming near the bird's bull eye. so let me suggest the following idea: 1) express the idea of pao 2) exhibit the history of pao ideas: by using 3) the slop of the hill and by 4) attracting people that wouldn't care about pao but then can't avoid caring about. let's build something like a box of illusion (with the help of the slop of the hill): it seems as though the floor is going uphill, but it's not, it's going downhill. one could "illustrate" this for instance with a ball made of concrete that's seemingly rolling uphill when pushed. the question for the PAO designer is: how would you make the illusion real? that could express the art and idea of pao and hopefully attract people. the box itself could be made of lath wood and wrapped with a slot of textile the allows for enough daylight coming in but keeps out cues that would destroy the illusion. (see drawing)





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