The ‘Parc de la Villette’ drawings;
Parc de la Villette is no ordinary park, this place holds an innumerable number of events. All orchestrated around a 120 meter grid of red follies. These follies are neither buildings nor pavilions. They are creatures all with different personalities; there is the Gatekeeper, the Crane-operator, the Freak, the Judge, the Water-bearer and so on. They are calm points of reference in the chaos tying the park together; facilitating transition between structure and landscape. They allow for the path to run wild, winding through the landscape, building momentum, leaving piles of dirt, as it rounds corners producing events along its route.
I have named them, through the naming process the creatures come to life; they are fitted with a story just like the city and all the stories it holds. Realising this I have extended the grid into the city and continue the little stories at the coming intersection points. Just as the creatures met at intersection points and establish stability in the chaos that is the Parc de la Villette through a manifestation of the connecting grid-lines, I will in the city locate the grid points and draw a very physical spatial connection in these spaces.