Static and Dynamic Forces [SDF]

Two phenomenons are represented on the site.
The platform together with the gallery can be seen as the static part of the site.




The dynamic part, the ephemeral, are the trains.
They both live of/on each other. The platform would not be anything without the trains, and the platform without its train would then not be a platform anymore.


The place is interesting, because it is undergoing a process of change. A change from only being a place for transfer, to a place of pause. A platform is in my eyes ephemeral architecture in its purest form. People getting on, people getting of, changing direction, getting lost etc. these procedures are supported with a plateau(architecture), which gives the users a space to do their Ephemeralization in the time inbetween. This time is the ephemeral pause, which break, connects and redirects back to reality...

Suggestions have already been made to embrace these "forces" which are naturally present at the site, the kaleidoscope.


Recommendable film: Robert Aldrich - Emperor of the North Pole (1973) IMDB

Kaleidoscope capturing the trains

What about somehow mirroring in the passing trains into the gallery space and creating a spatial kaleidoscopic piece of architecture?

I will develop this sketch later, but feel free to do it yourself as well.

This could be done either live with mirrors (through the windows? - magnus comment. I agree), or with videorecordings (with delays?) or a combination of those. The same principle could be used for sounds (echo?)...

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/15302600

My trigger in this is to "frame" (and also exploding the frame through the kaleidoscope, and the mirrors maybe also has to leave the gallery and enter the street on the other side of the building) view on the city and its infrastructure as an ecosystem, which has its cycles and rythms of it's own.

Reference video (never mind the title) and further reading (swedish)

Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)