JONICAHHH and DORICAHHH by Carmelo Rodríguez from ENORME studio for Bizarre Columns
07/04/2019.
Research project Bizarre Columns
metalocus, ADRIÁN MARTÍNEZ
metalocus, ADRIÁN MARTÍNEZ
Carmelo Rodríguez from ENORME Studio, designed Doricahhh and Jonicahhh, two lamps, part of the Bizarre Columns research project, that try to recover the distinguished classic past of the Doric and Ionic columns, transforming it into objects of furniture.
Jonicahhh and Doricahhh by Carmelo Rodriguez for Bizarre Columns. Photograph by Javier de Paz García.
Jonicahhh and Doricahhh by Carmelo Rodriguez for Bizarre Columns. Photograph by Javier de Paz García.
Jonicahhh and Doricahhh by Carmelo Rodriguez for Bizarre Columns. Photograph by Javier de Paz García.
Jonicahhh and Doricahhh by Carmelo Rodriguez for Bizarre Columns. Photograph by Javier de Paz García.
Jonicahhh and Doricahhh by Carmelo Rodriguez for Bizarre Columns. Photograph by Javier de Paz García.
Jonicahhh and Doricahhh by Carmelo Rodriguez for Bizarre Columns. Photograph by Javier de Paz García.
Jonicahhh and Doricahhh by Carmelo Rodriguez for Bizarre Columns. Photograph by Javier de Paz García.
Jonicahhh and Doricahhh by Carmelo Rodriguez for Bizarre Columns. Photograph by Javier de Paz García.
Jonicahhh and Doricahhh by Carmelo Rodriguez for Bizarre Columns. Photograph by Javier de Paz García.
During the modern movement the column loses all its protagonism. The ornaments are eliminated from the columns and they lose their name after the Corbusero term "piloti". Only its functionality and effectiveness is relevant.
Carmelo Rodríguez from ENORME Studio, the designer, creates two lamps for Bizarre Columns that try to recover the distinguished classic past of the Doric and Ionic columns and transform it into furniture objects. Constructed in fluorescent methacrylate, they use conventional luminaires such as a fluorescent tube and a glass globe.
Description of project by ENORME Studio
During the Modern Movement, columns are stripped of any prominence in relation to their distinguished past. Any significant ornamental reference is eliminated from the column and it is reduced to a question of functional syntaxis. The column, which even loses its name after the Corbuserian term "piloti", becomes relevant only in terms of its structural and structuring capacity, a role imposed by modernity through the open plan. This formal and semantic reduction is questioned by Robert Venturi in "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" in 1966 and by Charles Jencks in "The Language of Postmodern Architecture" in 1977. For the latter, architecture must recover its semantic capacity as a language through the power of the metaphor. So, the column becomes the fundamental term bound to communicate those new messages that surpass, but at the same time include, the exhausted modernity. The hybridization and aesthetic complexity, the recovery and reinterpretation of history, the taste for the extravagant or the bizarre, the inclusion of the unspecialized public, the interest for the context or for the generation of new cultural references are some of those new messages for which the column becomes the fundamental means of communication based on a series of architectural strategies.
"The Free Style order, like the first Doric and Ionic order, or like most compound orders, are motivated by meaning. Newness is provoked by that willingness for meaning." (Jencks, 1982, p.110)
The columns are back in town.
Doricahhh and Jonicahhh are two lamps that try to recover the distinguished classical past of the Doric and Ionic columns and transform it into furniture objects. Constructed in fluorescent methacrylate, they use conventional luminaires such as a fluorescent tube and a glass globe to dignify them through an exercise of Free Style Classicism.
Doricahhh and Jonicahhh are two prototypes associated with the BIZARRE COLUMNS research.
More information
Designer
Carmelo Rodríguez / ENORME Studio.
Research project
Bizarre columns
Drawings
Paco Alfaro
Carmelo Rodríguez, Rocío Pina and David Pérez ENORME STUDIO
ENORME Studio is the evolution of three co-founders of PKMN Architectures, they're Carmelo Rodríguez, Rocío Pina and David Pérez. After having collaborated for ten years on more than one hundred projects they've just started with a new shared initiative that keeps the same radical approach to architecture. They design and build ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS based on industrial systems and typological innovation.
They're specialists in mobile systems design applied to housing, office design and retail. They have changed the traditional concept of room in architecture, creating spaces that are easily converted through simple gestures. They design and perform participation dynamics in the domain of city construction through their creative services platform CIUDAD CREA CIUDAD and the creation of CITIZENSHIP BRAND IDENTITIES. Their aim is to foster alternative ways to examine urban issues and to motivate the creation of a proactive citizen culture. They design and apply TACTICAL URBANISM tools that transfer teamwork strategies and collective thinking dynamics into public and private space design and management. Their aim is to give the city back to citizens as an emotional, plural and relational space.
They're specialists in mobile systems design applied to housing, office design and retail. They have changed the traditional concept of room in architecture, creating spaces that are easily converted through simple gestures. They design and perform participation dynamics in the domain of city construction through their creative services platform CIUDAD CREA CIUDAD and the creation of CITIZENSHIP BRAND IDENTITIES. Their aim is to foster alternative ways to examine urban issues and to motivate the creation of a proactive citizen culture. They design and apply TACTICAL URBANISM tools that transfer teamwork strategies and collective thinking dynamics into public and private space design and management. Their aim is to give the city back to citizens as an emotional, plural and relational space.
