''IS NOT ONE OF KIND OF THING RATHER THAN ANOTHER, BUT ONE PHASE IN THE LIFE OF SOME THINGS''
''THE COMMODITY AS SPECTACLE''
Mise-en-scène
Mise-en-scène is a French term meaning ‘‘Putting
on stage’’. It combines elements such as lighting,
composition, art direction, costuming, makeup, and
texture. Mise-en-scène is almost everything that
happens in front of a camera in a particular scene.
The term is orrowed to represent a controlled scene
of reality, a singular reality that is believed because
it is all we can see.
Back-of-house
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Spectacle
A visually striking performance or display. The visible force behind most, if not all, events in human history. In today’s society, the term is deeply tied with culture of commodity consumption.
Reality
A representation.
Inspired by misreading Cedric Price’s plan, we begin to question the efficiency of typical factory typology and the waste that came from mass production and quick fulfillment. Our architecture becomes one that obscures the process of making while creating a spectacle of the making. For our program, we created spaces separating by its verticality, allowing the simultaneity of the factory space to be expressed through vision, but obscuring the physical exchange. The design process of our space is constantly being disrupted and distracted.
Our factory takes on the overall form of the incompleteness as it consists of deconstructed parts. Dead stock is transported through ramps into different rooms both horizontally and vertically. Abandoning traditional linear procedure, ordinary production-efficient sequences are broken and repurposed. The orientation of each room formsdifferent enclosures of the in-between space.
Through different scenes, the programs change from being the subject to our foreground and background with the insertion of the courtyard. While the conventional idea of high fashion is exclusive and luxury, the idea of upcycling is more than material treatment, it is a process of creating a bond between the user and the objects. The scenes reveal the craft of making as well as our craft of constructing the scene through the overlays. Through establishing the production process as a layering of craft, affection and care grows for each object in the making.
Camille thai
2021