Kristall, The Domestication of Water
by
Daryan Knoblauch
LOCATION: BRANDENBURG & BERLIN, GERMANY
Kristall uses water as its
vehicle to interrogate abject forms of urbanism and uncovers the techno-human
assemblage that structures our territories, urban environments, homes, and bodies.
The project investigates the emergence of the western bathroom and its
entanglement into an ever-growing machining hinterland through a research by
design, design by research methodology. Bathrooms connect the private sphere
with the public realm and allow bodies, technologies, domestic interiors, and
urban systems to operate intimately in coherent existence. Through historical
and typological analysis, the bathroom's cultural and architectural
characteristics are uncovered and furthermore instrumentalized in term of its
design. The design, Kristall, is in search of alternative infrastructural
occupation models, performative infrastructures, and communal landscapes of
care within the "terrain vague".
1.
Kristall 4 - Water Treatment Plant - Janitors
Bathroom | Daryan Knoblauch
2.
Kristall 4 - Water Treatment Plant - Janitors
Chamber | Daryan Knoblauch
3.
Kristall 1 - Bath | Daryan Knoblauch
4. Kristall 2 - Domestic | Daryan Knoblauch
CONTRIBUTORS
Daryan Knoblauch↩
*The project has its roots in
Projective Cities, the MPhil programme at the Architectural Association School
of Architecture in London.