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Digesting Capitalism

Part 1 Project 2018
Isabella Cohen
 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Australia
What is it like to live inside a consumeristic skyscraper? Living inside this organ perpetuates notions of the mundane and exaggerated. Bedrooms and bathrooms are designed to a standardized scale. However, the area surrounding the kitchen and living area are digestive and over-exaggerated. Bathrooms burst and bulge out, like hernias. The experience of this building is somewhat like being swallowed and spat back out.
Isabella Cohen
Tutor(s)
Mark Raggatt
2018
1. The notion of proposing a tower in the quaint suburban neighbourhood of Leichhardt in Sydney, Australia in perplexing. A convoluted relationship between myself and the brief was formed. There was no way of hiding it, this tower would stand as a symbol
2. I sought for precedent in Peter Greenaway’s 1989 British - French romantic black comedy, The Chef the Cook the Thief, His wife and her Lover. This is a film that portrays a theatrical and dramatic exploration of complex relationships. Protagonist, Albe
3. In the process of exploring form, I generated a series of photographs of rope in jars, examining their consistency as I wished to investigate intestinal configurations. I began to trace and give accentuated volume to them.
4. This method was then applied to an extruded rectangle which I modelled in its context. Identifying that the view from Parramatta Road would be the most important, it chief to sculpting a facade. I intended for it to appear as though it was feeding from
5. The tower stands as a foreign object in its surrounding environment. Situated in the context of a once industrial and now suburban setting, it is inevitably a bold statement. Viewers either traverse at high speeds, down the adjacent highway, or slowly
6. Living inside this organ fulfils notions of the mundane and exaggerated. Bedrooms and bathroom are designed to a standardized scale. However, the area surrounding the kitchen and living area are regurgitated and over exaggerated. This is comparable to
7. As the perceiver approaches the fleshy intestinal object they might feel compelled by its entry, a plump and gummy textured mouth-like portal. Once entered, the lobby is a compilation of overbearing pink and sticky-like leather upholstery. These gliste
8. Mouth-like, arches in the foyer invites onlookers to play within an optical mirror hall. The mystery of the mouth-like entrance, with frosted pink glass becomes the portal to the beginning of ‘the digestion.’
9. Bite marks and half-digested balconies are chewed up and spat out, exposing and identifying human scale.
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