Student Name: Ben Denzer
Faculty Advisor: Mario Gandelsonas; Justin Fowler
Project Title: Infrastructure As Exoskeleton, Stowe Garden, Truth Del Este
Subject Decription:
Infrastructure As Exoskeleton
An addendum to the proposal for a Hidroanel Metropolitano de São Paulo seeking to focus attention on the infrustructural needs and locally programed potential for the Billings Reservoir area, a poorer region which is largely ignored in the original document. This proposal takes the logic of Brazilian "exoskeletons" as a method to fuse local program with megaform infrastructure.
See my documentation here:
http://bendenzer.com/Infrastructure-As-Exoskeleton
Stowe Garden
A Bloomian re-writing (analogous to Alberti on Vitruvius) of a 17th century descriptive text on Stowe Garden synthesizing its poetry and catalogued visual descriptions into a single poetic object; turning the book into a device for experience as opposed to sole explanation. The set of 23 signatures translates Stowe's sequences of architectural follies into sequences of physical pages / layered transparencies. Each signatures
corresponds with a particular path; key is on sleeve.
See my documentation here:
http://bendenzer.com/Stowe-Garden
Truth Del Este
A parafictional history of Burle Marx's Parque del Este in Caracas Venezuela. Starting with a critical reading of Berrizbeitia's definitive text on the subject, the narrative uses a newly discovered historical archive to unravel a story of oil and corruption, concealment and deceit.
See my documentation here:
http://bendenzer.com/Truth-Del-Este
