Overview of comments to consider before January's crit in London:
- Fascinating topic – the walls are visible to us and you make them visible. But what do you think they are?
- Drawings similar to Appia's – stage set designer
- Consider accidental qualities of walls – drainage, flower pots
- Ideas interesting but Gift proposal is a bit simplistic. Revisit some of the ideas that have been explored in Seoul
- Models are missing!
- The way of representing ideas is rich. Walls are a colliding and layering of space
- Think about meaning of drawings (things you may not be aware of yet)
- Topography – when you look at retaining walls, you are participating in a larger scale site
- Consider continuous element of the walls. The enjoyable element is that you walk along them
- Linearity of Victorian railway tracks – an English comparison. Could final site be in England?
- Traditional, practical, poetic aspects of walls
Reflection of crit and time in Korea
- After ‘intervening’ physically in a long retaining wall, it is important also to reflect more on the wall itself, rather than simply cutting through it. Rather than think about the object, think about the theme
- Close analysis of this part of Seoul has been useful in order to engage with a specific site. However, there is also the subject of the wider scale – how retaining walls offer a re-reading of Seoul’s landscape
- A reference brought up in the crit was Victorian railways in London and how these shape the city, with similarities to retaining walls in Seoul. The walls navigate, guide, divide, and link spaces in the city. Equally, so do London’s railway routes.
- Although perhaps not the most obvious step, this seems particularly relevant to the project because of the connection I have between retaining walls and transport i.e. before Seoul, my view of retaining walls was always associated with transport systems as they are often found next to motorways, rivers and so on.
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