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AV Monografias 222 HEATHERWICK STUDIO

AV Monografias 222 HEATHERWICK STUDIO

Design as Experience by Luis Fernández-Galiano

Just what is it that makes Heatherwick’s works
so different, so appealing? I borrow the title from Richard Hamilton’s mythical collage to suggest answers. His work is so different and appealing because it understands architecture as experience, because it is based on material knowledge, and because it always has a poetic dimension. The first term inevitably addresses the pragmatic and holistic aesthetic of John Dewey, who in Art as Experience blurred the boundaries between high and low culture to define, with a radical democratic approach, the artistic as something that enhances life. Present in all the projects of the studio, that vital functionalism is illustrated well by Zeitz MOCAA, where the industrial geometry of a silo is modified by placing in its core a grain that grows until creating an interior space of organic resonances, underlining the link between the art that is displayed and the life that flows around it.
Material intelligence is without a doubt another of the features that characterizes Heatherwick’s work, always supported by the experience of the workshop and the attention to fabrication processes, because they serve to test the practical feasibility of the proposals, to try out the aesthetic result of manufacture, and to use crafts as a laboratory of technical and functional innovation. His complete oeuvre has been presented under the title Making, a word which is almost a manifesto, and the successive projects refine the material and formal findings, as can be seen, for instance, in the fascinating British pavilion in Shanghai, a ‘Cathedral of Seeds’ whose concept had been tried before in the permanent sculpture of Barnards Fram, and before that in the Belsay temporary pavilion, but which materialized at the Universal Expo as a memorable object capable of joining visual beauty, iconic singularity, and ecological message.
Last but not least, the choral and diverse work of Heatherwick is animated, in any of its multiple scales, by a sustained poetic breath that gives his bursts of imagination and his inventive flashes a life of their own. The ingenuity and emotion of his projects sometimes reaches the lyrical excess of the Vessel in New York, where the aerial and light reinterpretation of the deep petreous Indian stepwells reconciles the sublime with the everyday, perhaps offering an example of the art of living that Richard Rorty defended when he proposed an aesthetic ethic in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, three terms that also apply to a body of work whose material poetry knows well that it is contingent, whose expressive discipline does not exclude irony, and whose vital rationality is prompted by solidarity. And perhaps for the three reasons above we find this collection of projects ‘so different, so appealing.’

Luis Fernández-Galiano
El diseño como experiencia Design as Experience

Deyan Sudjic
Una trayectoria elocuente An Eloquent Path

Reunir   Gather

Pabellón de Reino Unido Expo 2010, 2007-2010, Shanghái (China)
United Kingdom Pavilion at the 2010 Expo, 2007-2010, Shanghai (China)

Centro financiero Bund, 2010-2017, Shanghái (China)
Bund Finance Center, 2010-2017, Shanghai (China)

Vessel, 2013-2019, Nueva York (EE UU)
Vessel, 2013-2019, New York (USA)

Campus Google Mountain View, 2015-, California (EE UU)
Google Mountain View Campus, 2015-, California (USA)

Distrito Toranomon-Azabudai, 2019-, Tokio (Japón)
Toranomon-Azabudai District, 2019-, Tokyo (Japan)

Conectar   Connect

Puente enrollable, 2002-2004, Londres (Reino Unido)
Rolling Bridge, 2002-2004, London (United Kingdom)

Estudios de artistas Aberystwyth, 2005-2009, Aberystwyth (Reino Unido)
Aberystwyth Artist Studios, 2005-2009, Aberystwyth (United Kingdom)

Learning Hub, Universidad Tecnológica de Nanyang, 2011-2015, Singapur (Singapur)
Learning Hub, Nanyang Technological University, 2011-2015, Singapore (Singapore)

Sede de Google King’s Cross, 2015-, Londres (Reino Unido)
Google King’s Cross, 2015-, London (United Kingdom)

Lantern House, 2015-, Nueva York (EE UU)
Lantern House, 2015-, New York (USA)

Nutrir    Nurture

Parque Al Fayah, 2010-, Abu Dabi (EAU)
Al Fayah Park, 2010-, Abu Dhabi (UAE)

Complejo de usos mixtos 1000 Trees, 2011-2020, Shanghái (China)
Mixed-Use Development 1000 Trees, 2011-2020, Shanghai (China)

Centro Maggie Yorkshire, 2012-2020, Leeds (Reino Unido)
Maggie’s Yorkshire, 2012-2020, Leeds (United Kingdom)

Pier 55, Little Island, parque y auditorio, 2013-, Nueva York (EE UU)
Pier 55, Little Island, Park and Performance Space, 2013-, New York (USA)

Torre residencial Eden, 2017-2020, Singapur (Singapur)
Eden Residential Tower, 2017-2020, Singapore (Singapore)

Reutilizar   Reuse

Destilería Bombay Sapphire, 2010-2014, Laverstoke (Reino Unido)
Bombay Sapphire Distillery, 2010-2014, Laverstoke (United Kingdom)

Zeitz MOCAA, 2011-2017, Ciudad del Cabo (Sudáfrica)
Zeitz MOCAA, 2011-2017, Cape Town (South Africa)

Coal Drops Yard, 2014-2018, Londres (Reino Unido)
Coal Drops Yard, 2014-2018, London (United Kingdom)

Savarin, 2019-, Praga (República Checa)
Savarin, 2019-, Prague (Czech Republic)

Olympia London, 2019-, Londres (Reino Unido)
Olympia London, 2019-, London (United Kingdom)