Alp Serif Besen

Dimensions:
50cm x 70cm
Software:
Maya 3D
Adobe Illustrator
Date:
01.2018

“Formal Gestures” is a set of abstract architectural diagrams of İstanbul Manifaturacılar Çarşısı, commissioned IMC5533 for an independent research-art project. The building has a special place in the history of modern Turkish architecture. It dates back to when modernism was still the dominant code for architecture. Yet, it also displays aspects of postmodernism and its playfulness.

The diagram imagines the form of the building as a moving invasive object in reference to its surroundings. In doing so, the form, captured by the gravity of the urban environment, falls on the ground creating a dent. Later the form expands only to be confined by both the physical and the abstract boundaries surrounding it.

In the poster, each step is represented as frames. Each frame, accompanied by a keyword, is a scene extracted as an image from a 3D animation made in Maya. The scenes are then placed on a layout in Adobe Illustrator.