Phase 3: Urbanus - Contrast City

 In my vision of the city, there is only pure and simple geometric forms. 

This idea of the city is to let society interpret their own meaning on the city based on only two conditions. 

White Rectangle - represents non-objective. It is where the so-called “materialization” of the feeling of realistic conception is lost. The means of representation is to give the full expression to feelings and ignores the familiar appearance of objects, where nothing can be perceived but pure feelings, where everything is define by scale.

Black Cube, society live to admire and defend its meaning. It contains history of the old city, a city of stories and importance where people would talk about the science of forms and philosophical ideas behind it. Inside is the remains of the city society still want to preserve – giving the black cube its own story to interpret.

The map shows where all the Black Cube would be located in Bangkok, covering mainly temples and other important monuments that gives Bangkok a story during a time period, as well as the white rectangle, indicating skyscrapers, located mainly at the end of Chaophraya river.

Along the Chaophraya river is where it contains the layers of histories of Bangkok city, where the village would form its building through beliefs, such as temple. As time passes, the growth of the city expand even more along the Chaophraya river, and there started to be infrastructure such as roads and bridges. As knowledge become more powerful than belief, society created the skyscraper to show materialization of objects and expand it throughout the center of the city. Not only vertically, but horizontally as well, such as parking space which would become more important to the city as it grows. 

Looking through the preserved monument inside the Black Cube, which lands perfectly on site with existing buildings, give us a new perspective on the city where everything become so pure and simple. There is only Black Cube and White Rectangle, covering the buildings we used to see it's characteristics through form and function, only to now interpret its meaning using our own perception on 'the city'.