A House for Two Artists
Life is a series of individual traces, accumulated with countless encounters and choices. To celebrate unexpected encounters, the house is designed for intended coincident encounters of two people’s lives. The premise is that an artist, Jackson Pollock, and a movie director, Woody Allen, share a house. Furthermore, the residence for each of the individuals reflects their life philosophy and allows them to create dynamism by their encounters.
There are two parallel lines that never meet each other in one rectangular area. These parallel lines mark the two residences. The two artists share the space between the parallel lines as a ‘Mirror Space’. The Mirror Space can be an entrance, a meeting place, and a separating boundary at the same time. The Mirror Space shows the reinterpretation of space from Allen’s movies and Pollock’s paintings. There are ‘Light Wells’ across the ‘Mirror Space’ and these light wells connect individual houses in the different forms. In Allen’s residence, the light wells act as fragmented slabs at multiple levels, and the random light traces from the light wells are situated on the wall of Pollack’s residence just like one of his action paintings.
The result is that the two artists face one another’s life from the reflection of the Mirror Space. The Mirror Space creates a spontaneous encounter through the medium which reflects both oneself and another at the same time.