Space in Books

A recent graduate of the Bartlett School of Architecture, Johan Hybschmann did a project were he varied a mix of ornate technical detailing and abstract ideas that dealt with simulation, reproductions, and spatial perception.

The above image is a blank sketchbook that has been laser cut with precision representing a 90 minute shot of Russian Ark a film by Alexander Sokurov. It’s a new way of looking at the ideas being experienced in a new dimension in a book that it is to read about it.

Johan writes that:
The book is made from layered silhouettes with inbuilt distorted perspectives that are laser-cut into the individual pages of a standard sketchbook. There is a drawing for each page, and these are all cut separately: turning the page, loading up a new drawing and cutting, page by page.

In Hybschmann’s “Replicating a Replica” he created two buildings that occupy the same place at the same time, interlocking and separating visually and spatially. It’s just another example of Johann’s approach to seeing architecture, how it is comprehended when built, and how to make it more complicated and interesting at the same time.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/book-of-space.html