Idea by
Carol Iglesias and Jorge Rodriguez
Affordable Portable
http://affordableportable.cargocollective.com
Call for ideas 2019
On-Site Interruptus
On-Site Interruptus
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- New alliances
Interruption creates duration, allowing us to reflect on the process of architecture: from the moment a proposal hits a desk, to the point when a site is fenced off and cranes are brought in, to the virtual tour of an unbuilt mega-tower. Architectural projects provoke feelings and make interests collide. At times, things come to a halt. Our project jams the moment of construction to give life to architectural ideas, not as pre-fab social futures, but as designs to be roughly, barely realised. Ideas from the open call will serve as a framework for a story, featuring narratives like:
a gas station along the Sinai Peninsula turns into the sole centre of life after the construction of an transnational railway provokes massive traffic jams in the region; a weed plague increases ground humidity and halts an urban up-cycling project; the opening ceremony for a riverside pool is postponed when fishermen displaced years ago sabotage the project by throwing live fish in the chlorinated water
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Bureaucratic deferrals (permits, notices, licenses to build, governmental authorisation, management approval, naming, owning, signing, etc.)
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Collateral delays (traffic jams, long circumventions, queues, insomnia provoked by construction noise, clogged bridges, busy supply chains, etc.)
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Disruptions/Irruptions (directed or undirected information overflows, strikes, broken machines, fallen cranes, distractions, lazy workers, passer-by, unsecured sites, etc.)
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Arresting Sites (spaces not meant to be traversed, ecological interruptions, unexpected soils, wrong measurements, weeds, plague, weather events, etc.)
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Correspondence takes time (back and forth, FYI, meaningful project, religious authority, arousing opinion, fit, matching tradition, letters, etc.)
On-Site Interruptus
On-Site Interruptus
![](/media/cache/6c/d8/6cd87f5328f40733cae2607c633560e3.jpg)
- New alliances
Interruption creates duration, allowing us to reflect on the process of architecture: from the moment a proposal hits a desk, to the point when a site is fenced off and cranes are brought in, to the virtual tour of an unbuilt mega-tower. Architectural projects provoke feelings and make interests collide. At times, things come to a halt. Our project jams the moment of construction to give life to architectural ideas, not as pre-fab social futures, but as designs to be roughly, barely realised. Ideas from the open call will serve as a framework for a story, featuring narratives like:
a gas station along the Sinai Peninsula turns into the sole centre of life after the construction of an transnational railway provokes massive traffic jams in the region; a weed plague increases ground humidity and halts an urban up-cycling project; the opening ceremony for a riverside pool is postponed when fishermen displaced years ago sabotage the project by throwing live fish in the chlorinated water
![](/media/cache/2e/3e/2e3ef823dd6a35249f8b08155b429f7e.jpg)
Bureaucratic deferrals (permits, notices, licenses to build, governmental authorisation, management approval, naming, owning, signing, etc.)
![](/media/cache/99/cc/99cc91a43e77c480dbaa75cad9b8af37.jpg)
Collateral delays (traffic jams, long circumventions, queues, insomnia provoked by construction noise, clogged bridges, busy supply chains, etc.)
![](/media/cache/60/f3/60f3ab7e1a867ee994c37907bd0a7dd0.jpg)
Disruptions/Irruptions (directed or undirected information overflows, strikes, broken machines, fallen cranes, distractions, lazy workers, passer-by, unsecured sites, etc.)
![](/media/cache/5a/e4/5ae44b9e96acf79dea1e098a99df7d13.jpg)
Arresting Sites (spaces not meant to be traversed, ecological interruptions, unexpected soils, wrong measurements, weeds, plague, weather events, etc.)
![](/media/cache/56/bb/56bb8d4d2740557f5c451d34771912dd.jpg)
Correspondence takes time (back and forth, FYI, meaningful project, religious authority, arousing opinion, fit, matching tradition, letters, etc.)