Relief-spaces: Trans-positions in display environments

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Mimarlık Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2019

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: SEZİN SARICA

Danışman: Ayşen Savaş Sargın

Özet:

The aim of this study is to redefine the relationship between the exhibition space and the object on display. With the recognition that architecture of exhibition space has been a renowned problematic in the architectural discourse, this study specifically focuses on the spatial integrity of both the container, the exhibition space, and the content, the object on display. The inquiry is into the possibility of using the visual field of artistic production, “relief”, as a decoder, in order to be able to define a new way of seeing the visual field of exhibition space. Relief is reintroduced as a scaleless surface and space formation. Therefore, it becomes a seeing/reading tool that can magnify the environments superimposed in one immersive medium. Space and the surface are read together as a display environment. The aim is to look into the term and condition “expansion” that surface defines while creating a relief-space as a display space. Relief-space is defined as an architectural condition, which is conceptualized through a collocated textual ground of both architecture and art. The discussion questions both the conventional singularity of museum and galleries as “the” exhibition space and the conventional stability of architecture, which has been accepted only as the “container”.