Painting Construct / Joseph N. Biondo
Joseph N. Biondo has paired with internationally recognized abstract painter Ed Kerns to design a conceptual, unbuilt project that will house Kerns’ Bones Like Iron-Blood Like Mercury. This unique collaboration has resulted in an exploratory exercise of modest materials to create a renewed reality within the material condition of a building. “The materials we use are commonplace however, the care for their methods of assembly and absolute passion for scrupulous detailing are not… To make an extraordinary material special is trite, but to heighten one’s awareness of a humble material can be poetic,” explained Biondo.
More images and more about the project after the break.
"BONES LIKE IRON-BLOOD LIKE MERCURY " Ed Kerns
"BONES LIKE IRON-BLOOD LIKE MERCURY " Ed Kerns
Situated in the forested landscape of Easton Pennsylvania, the painting construct slowly reveals its layers to the visitor. While first the form may be revealed, soon, details of the material and its relation to the surroundings add to the quality of the space.
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After traversing down a ramp that leads to a narrow tunnel, the threshold opens dramatically as light illuminates the space from above. As the structure is designed to hold Kerns’ painting, the construct forms a relationship with the art as the spiraling circulation represents the concentric rings found in Kerns’ work. The painting rests deep within the project, at the base of a free standing wall which anchors the reflecting pool and rises toward the sky.
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True to Biondo’s and Kerns’ beliefs about the power of simple and humble materials, the structure is fabricated from one standard material-the concrete masonry unit. Although a modest material, the CMU transmits a “sense of tranquility through appropriate scale, materiality, and detailing-an implied simplicity designed to enhance and compliment the complex layers within the paintings.”
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The detailing and quality of construction will allow the project to slowly become part of its surroundings, truly becoming part of nature’s fabric.
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- “BONES LIKE IRON-BLOOD LIKE MERCURY ” Ed Kerns
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- “BONES LIKE IRON-BLOOD LIKE MERCURY ” Ed Kerns
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- East Elevation © Joseph N. Biondo
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- South Elevation © Joseph N. Biondo
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- West Elevation © Joseph N. Biondo
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- Section © Joseph N. Biondo
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- Plan Lower Level © Joseph N. Biondo
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- Plan Entry Level © Joseph N. Biondo
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- Site Plan © Joseph N. Biondo
Project Credits
Painting Construct : Joseph N. Biondo, Architect
Ed Kerns, Artist
Project Team: Randy Galiotto, Sierra Krause, Pat Ruggiero
In kind support from Spillman Farmer Architects
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania USA
The exhibition space is simple and elegant, exemplifying the art of Ed Kerns and the architecture of SFA very well (Ed Kerns being a professor at my school, and SFA having designed our visual arts building, I have a feel for both parties.)
The only correction I have to make is that the town is Easton, PA; not Eastern, PA.
The only word that comes to mind for me is “appropriate”
the kind of thing I’d like to build, almost a sculpture.
OK this is “a conceptual, unbuilt project”,
but are blocs of concrete appropriate to build stairs ?
Sketchup can make thing possible thanks to material mapping but in reality …
dark, cold bunker/ all it needs is some vegetation growing over it to make it a hideous waste of time and virgin land
Nice walls, but making a a freestanding stair out of cmu is absurd. As much as this is a beautiful concept, take some time to look at the Trenton Bathhouse- the cmu was nearly destroyed only 40 years after construction. To suggest that a level of decay and deterioration is to be expected (to be followed by destabilization and structural failure)is irresponsible from anyone in this profession.
sublime
Juniper Jail Cell.
The juxtaposition of the box against the forest makes for an astounding composition.
The image looking down to the pool is CG.
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