Elastic System Integration:
Zachary Aders
As of now, my project consists of two parts: research and speculation. The research component is a new series of diagrams analyzing earth-works which range in scale, scope, and program. This research is intended to build a vocabulary of concepts relative to the manipulation of landscape. The artists in the research are Serra, Smithson, Heizer, Turrell, Clement, Marx, Noguchi, and Olmstead. Each diagrammed project offers a unique technique of manipulating earth material. The collages thus far have been more of a diagrammatic exercise speculating on overlaying systems in ways where the relationship between them is elastic, and changes as they are overlayed/underlayed. I prefer not to use the “weaving” analogy, as this is more diagrammatic than strictly geometrical (I think categorizing it as a weave would limit me to that technique/geometry, which is highly complex and specific). I did start assigning materials to these studies, speculating on how the overlay of infrastructural/agricultural/structural systems can shift from direct to offset while changing in density as well. It is important to me to have multiple systems coexisting across the site with specific integration that is not always a 1:1 relationship to eachother and to the local context. The systems must calibrate to the multiple contingencies across the site. I would like to use the analysis of the land artist studies to help direct the interface of these systems with the site, buildings, and population.
