City Sereis: Intersection between Architecture and Art

City Series references the landscape design project entitled City Lounge by Carlos Martinez + Pipilotti Rist. City Lounge is an outdoor space in the center of St. Gallen, Switzerland that was designed by Carlos Martinez in collaboration with the artist Pipilotti Rist for a design competition in 2005. The idea was to create a public living room where small streets in the central city have been covered with red rubber, traffic signals are placed like toy-objects, and illumination comes from light bubbles. In my piece, I explore my impressions and visual inspirations of the city, focusing on architectural environments such as glass, color, light, and parks. For this project, I specifically focused on Martinez’s concept of a public space as a living room. This seemed related to my notion of a park in that I refer to it as an intimate and exclusive personal space inside the open and inclusive public space: by negotiating the pre- established language of architecture, I am exploring a new artistic reality by designing spaces through paintings and architectural models.