MORE – what does it mean to the passing ?
cars are flashing by at enormous speed, one after the other. they head
towards the city of promises.
the passengers, detached from their surrounding and narrowed in
their sight. do they even notice this place?
for them it resembles an inert wasteland, serving no purpose, inheri-
ting no potential.
the villa and the garage.
they certainly contain a memory of past times.
what the view from my window in the old villa might have been like?
before it was cut off from the city by newly constructed edifices.
how could the garage be used for parking and mechanical works?
before its inside was abandoned by the industry.
the place, while it originates from a system of urban accumulation, it
appears dysfunctional nowadays.
up here i am liberated from the urban traffic. i rest in my chair and
enjoy the moment, eternalize it.
i inhale the setting of the serene lake and the massive mountainscape.
its static nature withstands the temporal of the city, just like the villa,
like the garage.
to simply exist in this place at this time, to follow my own rhythm.
for me that means much – MORE.
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Urban legends are short fictions that come close to myths, contemporary tales, which spread in popular culture by oral transmission and proliferate through social networks. These stories that circulate and that everyone knows. Your uncle told you about that alligator living in the sewers of New York, your father’s girlfriend confirmed it. These legends are mysterious, terrifying or funny. They are adapted to the local folklore by word of mouth, through hearsay. Each city produces these murmurs. Like an echo.
GayMenzel Studio addresses the complexity of the context as a source of development of a narrative linked to the site itself. This highlighting tool reveals the inherent qualities of the place and integrates projections or personal aspirations into it, with the broad ambition of reconnection to the environment.
The studio develops a coherent idea of a project starting from the territory and its landscape all the way up to the very detail. A prototype of a lamp will reflect these influences and enable evocation.