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Mindful mediations at Three Anchor Bay
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13096 Mindful mediations at Three Anchor Bay Gericke, Ludwig Myer, Landon Architecture, Planning and Geomatics . This project is a synthesis of, on the one hand, the interventionist architect curiously and deliberately plotting form and visualising construction and, on the other hand, the human being often wilfully retreated and joyfully observing the uninterrupted and the conflicting. It is this dialectic - rather than immovable theoretical principles - that has informed not only my process, but also my design. In this sense this project represents what I believe to be the most important feature of my architectural education: the inexplicable joy in the constant re-evaluation of the imprecise nexus between the deliberately mediated and the uninterrupted. This impulse is also what (perhaps unknowingly at the time) attracted me to Three Anchor Bay - a site of untameable swells, impenetrable rhythms, ebb and flow. It is a site that necessitates decisiveness in a counterintuitive form; boundaries. Any frontier, however versatile and accommodating, requires commitment (few are capable of confidently kayaking beyond an otherwise parameter-defining promenade). Drawing a line is not only the problem of the architect, but the human being. Although this paper is largely a personal essay instead of a coherent treatise (I reserve the right to remain sceptical of every decision), it is important to make a few general observations. The first is supremely personal: I am decidedly fallible. Although harsh introspection is generally more valuable and courageous than the resolute defence of personal conviction, I often found myself passionately defending lines I have drawn (especially ones that I have spent a lot of time re- drawing and erasing). Redrawing can be a counterintuitive struggle and it has often been difficult to regard it as a necessary and unpredictable process rather than as emblematic of some sort of failure. Although common sense urges us to "learn from our mistakes", it is never quite that simple. This project has, in short, caused me to constantly mediate between conviction and perpetual self-criticism. Secondly, these ideas are by no means new and have been repeated (and often ignored) in various contexts. Karl Popper, for instance, believed that "any idea of Utopia is necessarily closed owing to the fact that it chokes on its own refutations. The simple notion of a good model for society that cannot be left open for falsification is totalitarian” (Taleb, 2004, p.128-129). The same is true of architecture - particularly those projects that are resolutely planted in a pre-determined style, ideology or “balance”. 2015-06-25T13:46:10Z 2015-06-25T13:46:10Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MArch (Prof) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13096 eng application/pdf School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
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| title | Mindful mediations at Three Anchor Bay |
| title_full | Mindful mediations at Three Anchor Bay |
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| title_short | Mindful mediations at Three Anchor Bay |
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| topic | Architecture, Planning and Geomatics |
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