I found some floor plans and architectural drawings of Trellick Tower and the Balfron Estate and have been messing around with them on Photoshop, layering them up, inverting them, erasing bits and adding blocks of tone etc.
These are mostly just abstract ways of playing around with some relevant imagery, although in the last one I tried to hint more directly towards the actual shape of Goldfinger's buildings. Despite having quite an appropriate aesthetic I don't really think these carry enough conceptual weight.
I suppose in a way, by appropriating the technical drawings and plans for these buildings and using them in a purely aesthetic way, I am attempting to highlight the beauty in the simplified design of these buildings, the 'form follows function' ethos and artistic merit that can be found in such conservative modernist architecture, which (especially in Goldfinger's case) often spurs hatred, referred to as 'concrete monstrosities'.
I'm not sure that argument completely works though, seeing as what i have created here has no practical function, which would stand against everything modernist architecture is about. So if I was to pursue this conceptual path of creating work which is purely aesthetic but informed by architectural designs, to highlight the artfulness of the practicality and efficiency of such designs, the work I would end up with would sort of contradict itself.
There is also the fact that I have added things to these plans and if I really want to make the point I was trying to here, I should probably just present the plans as they are. Adding to them also contradicts the point I am trying to make by suggesting that they need to be altered in some way.
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