Category: architecture

Portal

architecture, creative, fantasy, funny, nature

I’ve seen this architectural phenomenon many times on my way to Cranleigh. It caught my attention right away because, well, a gate that refuses to be a gate makes me question the very base of my studies.

Portal

So this little ‘attention door’ cannot be told what a gate should do. Separating and connecting at the same time, for instance. (How poetic of a few pieces of brick and some cement!) But this one only stands by the road, not separating nor connecting, just looking very mysterious. Even suspicious if You ask me. But I guess, that’s just the way portals to other dimensions are nowadays…

Photos: Bramley, UK (2016) and Miami beach, USA (2010)

Free creation

architecture, nature

I wish. I wish gravity and rainwater didn’t make it so hard to create freely. Experimenting with masses, materials, textures and surfaces without having to think about heat insulation or load bearing beams sounds like a dream come true. And then there is electricity to consider, heating and God forbid plumbing with all the wires, pipes and those fairly unattractive chimneys and bathroom windows that end the façade fairytale. Unfortunately though these things are quite handy on an everyday basis when you are a human being, not a cow.

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