Presentness of the Object

"We are passive witnesses of history but active participant. We can either resist or give in to the imperatives of the moment. Resistance may not be in the form of barricades, but only in poetic or visionary dissent”. (Lebbeus woods)

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This Research explores the relationship between object and its subject in terms of the metaphysics of presence and “Presentness”. Exploring Architecture as a form of a language and “Text” through a set of foundation that is generated through the presence of the object. Architecture foundation is what preserves and resist through its set of principles. These foundations don’t just belong to architecture, but it’s through the persistent of the object of architecture that the foundations of culture are preserved and resist. Therefore, Architecture by necessity needs to assume and maintain a form of a communication to render the conscious of society. For this reason Object always strikes by the subject as a language, it became a tool to represents a layer of reality and preserving it.

This Research is the critique of such resistance of social and political aspects of that reality. The thesis will redesign and reframe “Parc de la Villette” project as a critique of such realities, a critique of resistance and eventually critique of itself. It poses a question to destabilize and dislocate the discourses of architectural projects. It becomes a platform to project a project, for a potential of an architectural project to come.

The project Parc-K-de La Villette is a reconstruction of the Parc. An archeological reconstruction based on the layer of the history. The project depends on pragmatic linkage between its autonomous object in fragmentation state, After lining up this catalog of autonomous independent object extracted and reframed from their past then introduce to their new metaphysical “ground”. Architecture here becomes a bridge between one special event and the next, their meaning is generated through a system of differences and it gave the different spaces between and inside these object the same conceptual equivalence to generate a space both on architectural and urban scale in their “ground”, a “Presentness”.

Architecture is a condition of totality where it cannot be reduced to a fetish object or a style. Therefore, what does is it mean for the object to realize itself and realize its own metaphysical presence?

Object in the Parc-K appears separate and autonomous in relation to one another within their boundary, putting their boundary under investigation. Exposing this boundary reveals the structures that are essential to the system, but unknown by the system. What the plan gives you is a series of discrete elements within this boundary; the question is what is it that the structure realizes about its own state of becoming?

The structure is fundamentally different, which enables an interpretation of itself not simply as representational, but as a generative process, therefore it has the possibility to free itself from what it was prior to it, and the history of it in order to become “Another”. This will make the image of the Parc-K not as illustrative, but productive.

The different layers of its conceptual history gives the structure a complex temporality, the work must complete in and of itself, it is always to be determine, which gives the Parc-K a value of potentiality.

The Parc-K gives a series of objects and within them there is the possibility of potentiality that can be brought about, which one realizes that the meaning in the Parc-K is an after effect of a system that generates it. We no longer go to meaning as an image; we realize it as being produced. And what is produced allows it to separate itself from the content; therefore it makes the meaning free itself from its content.

Abstraction here doesn’t mean it can be anything because there are lines and objects that are already there which one can work on. It is not content less, it is generative, which means one must work with what is given. The meaning here, categorizes by indeterminacy with the capacity of always becoming determents in and of themselves which is always internal to the structure.

It is this break down of the structure that gives the very possibility of it, by shaking its wholeness of its “Text”. “Text” that appears within the objects Autonomy. Autonomy that generates no form of calculation that orders anything other than calculation in the operation of architecture itself. Therefore how does one think relationality in this boundary given the fact that objects as beings are separated as in oppose to political fact that first talk about relationality then talk about separation within the relationality.

We are living in a society that every active participant; male, female, gays, blacks, etc., talks about having its own rights and talks about freedom; I have right and I have my separate autonomy in a relationship to other autonomous forms of being. What is it like going from autonomy as oppose from political aspect of the grids as form of relationality to individuality?

Object on the Parc-K claim their autonomy and freedom and at the same time generate a sense of relationality to one another. The object that realizes itself from structure that guides it, which is not external to the object. There is a process, which is generating itself by the principals of change that is always internal to the object through its structure.

Object by their own autonomous effectuation is understood as a process of becoming, to explore the inherent order to become parent in the phenomena of the Parc-K during the process of becoming.

By putting into consideration of its own becoming, how is it that what it is? How does it maintain itself, and how does it realize of that what was prior to it? Which is always something, and that something has a history, therefore it’s never a new thing, it’s another thing. How is it another thing? The “Text” is already within the object in terms of its prior repetition and therefore in terms of its being, “Another”. It’s not about generating a new meaning, but is about generating “Another” in term of value and criticality of an object in its “Ground”, a “Presentness”.