Marfa Texas, rural building, landscape view, Donald Judd, Chinati Foundation, sculpture installation, minimalism, Onland Architecture, Landon Brown

MARFA
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Scope: Installation
Type: Installation
Size: n/a
Location: Marfa, Texas

In a former stable building on a once active military base turned museum, a series of subtle interventions re-negotiate the relationship between architecture, landscape and the perceptually changing conditions of light and sky. Inside, a triadic set of cast plaster tiles positioned along the central axis of the structure between blasted out walls establishes both a visual axis and a second order narrative. On the stable’s exterior, the pair of reflective surfaces positioned on its rusting, corrugated iron roof register a two-dimensional surface transformation as changing conditions of light in the sky are momentarily recorded.

The stable building, unconsciously left to entropic processes, functions as little more than a subtle interruption to the sun and wind tracking over the gassy high plain. Yet, upon closer view, the structure has become a phenomenological measure of these movements. Diffused into the surrounding landscape, architecture is conceived here as a condition which anticipates both its own interiority and its eventual dismantling.

axonometric drawing, sculpture installation, marfa texas, Chinati Foundation, Donald Judd, Onland Architecture, Landon Brown

Axonometric diagram illustrating stable building components and ‘tile’ interventions

Marfa Texas, rural building, landscape view, Donald Judd, Chinati Foundation, sculpture installation, minimalism, Onland Architecture, Landon Brown
Marfa Texas, rural building, landscape view, Donald Judd, Chinati Foundation, sculpture installation, minimalism, Onland Architecture, Landon Brown
Marfa Texas, rural building, landscape view, Donald Judd, Chinati Foundation, sculpture installation, minimalism, Onland Architecture, Landon Brown
Marfa Texas, rural building, landscape view, Donald Judd, Chinati Foundation, sculpture installation, minimalism, Onland Architecture, Landon Brown
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