Wednesday 7 December 2011

Architecture Culture & Identity. Semester 01 - Witek Hewanicki

THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP AND MEASURING OF TIME

Humans are timekeepers. We use Time to make sense of the world
around us, it helps organise us and helps to connect people and places
Time keeping began with humans having to adapt to the natural worldThe rhythm of the rising and setting of the sun, the movement of the
moon, planets and stars were observed and recorded to form the first
notions of timekeeping.


Atmospheric maps of the Thames focusing on the City of London and Fleet Street as the heart of clock making and Greenwich as the home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Meridian Line.



Clock piece series as a graphic and laser cut timber panel


''A THOUGHT RULED BY TIME CAN BE EXPRESSED ONLY IN MYTH'' - DE SATILLANA

The starting point of research was to review a myth appropriate to our thesis direction.
The story of Ra introduces the ideas of our relationship with time, the life cycle and measuring time.



''KEEPING TIME, TIME, TIME, IN A SHORT OF RUNIC RHYME, TO THE TINTINNABULATION THAT SO MUSICALLY WELLS, FROM THE BELLS, BELLS, BELLS'' - EDGAR ALLAN POE






Artefact showing three layers; 'Tempus Fugit' poem, the second 'Water Music' by Hayden and the third a clock