To help boost the "progressive upsurge" of their country, Georgian government selects a curvy building design to serve as a chechpoint between Georgia and Turkey at Sarpi. 
To help boost the "progressive upsurge" of their country, Georgian government selects a curvy building design to serve as a chechpoint between Georgia and Turkey at Sarpi. designboom. Remember Dupli.Casa?
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Well, lets look at this....
The project consists of two elements; a straightforward horizontal form and a free-form vertical observation tower that doubles as a sign-post. The significance of the signpost is what interests me.
It is tall, white and squiggly - in contrast to its darker surroundings. The height and color make this stand-out and observable from the horizon. The squiggle then is what this is all about. It is artistically expressive, free-form in shape, obviously new, undulating with pride. An extruded, perhaps endless shape with no restraints: in short, a marker signifying artistic self-expression, in a word - freedom.
eric chavkin
dupli.casa seemed much more successful in expressing form, as it flowed -
here, the simplicity is not sublime or balanced, which seems against the "free-spirited" gesture dominating it - in other words, the simplicity here seems forced, which does tremendous damage to the overall form (imho) - then again, maybe after it's built, there might be enough lightness in its realization that it might work - definitely not the same caliber of dupli.casa.
Yes,
I see this this as pretty straight-forward 'symbolism'. I agree. This is not balanced , not sublime, not much of anything really.
But I think every work deserves, or at least there is a possibility, of discussion; from student works to everyday commercial and residential building, to avant-garde. Some are art, some are not. All have some 'inner' visual pattern, which is what I look for, I see, and always, in time, revealed.
eric chavkin
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