Thesis Ana Celdran

Thesis Ana Celdran

Project Description

The project produced from this research will be a hidden room for Cuban Black market. A space that hosts trading activities considered illegal in the studied context. Unlike other countries where this type of market involves drug dealing and prostitution, in Cuba, the black market is where household items, clothing, food, and electronics are sold. Illegal trading activities really took off in Cuba during the 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed. Shortages on all kinds of goods followed.

One of the main issues that Cubans have to deal with is individuality since intellectual activities, as well as food, clothing among other things are very restricted and controlled. There are some subjective matters that societies could function without; however, food, water, basic hygiene products are not.

 

Methodology

This research takes representational techniques as starting point to develop abstract thinking, and form finding. The basis of descriptive geometry allows us to understand an object’s projection on a plane or a surface and how much it differs from its true shape and dimensions. These techniques represent objects through rotation, folding, overlapping, and discontinuity highlighting their pictorial qualities.

Using these representations and a typical colonial envelope, I created a catalog of 3 dimensional parts. These three-dimensional pieces of a colonial building will be flattened and projected onto a plane with the purpose of creating 3 dimensional artifacts from their 2-dimensional composition. The combination of two-dimensional views starts informing profiles as well as their volumetric qualities.