OCCA. / OSBORN CENTRE of CULTURE & ARTS (osborn st. proposal)

This summer a derelict warehouse site on Osborn Street will be transformed into a centre of unique structures celebrating the rich and diverse east london community through arts, crafts and sports.

The abandoned warehouse site on Osborn street has become a forgotten space overtime.  Though situated in the conservation area of Brick Lane it still remains derelict, collecting rust, scrap objects from passers by and graffiti, which is perhaps its only merit.  The OCCA is my answer to the countless years of neglect the site has been subjected to.  The OCCA  is a multipurpose space that has a(n): 

arts and installations pavilion [the structure is made of light frame scaffolding, on which sheets of tensioned fabric (the canvas for the artists ) are stretched.  The structure can be dismantled, according to its required function.]

indoor arts & crafts market and workshop

spaces to wine and dine. 

outdoor graffiti mural wall, where members of the public and artist's community are welcome to paint on at any time

pop-up space that can be used to erect structures for either a cinema, theatre or extreme sports.

The Osborn Centre of Culture & Arts serves the local residents and surrounding creative community.  

DESTRUCT.ABSTRACT.CONSTRUCT_OSBORN St

EXPLOSION & CAMERA TEST

 Graffiti =Territory= Architecture

 "When we become lost in the cities we live in, we rediscover our place by responding to the stories that architects tell with our own marks — words and images that tell stories in the cities we inhabit. Writing one’s name on a building claims space and makes place: it makes that building surface ours. Design cannot be spontaneous, but graffiti needs to be. Architecture may be hard and solid and slow, but writers move quickly. Writing names and identities onto the city is how we engage the slowness of architecture and put ourselves into the stories of the places we live."

Zollinger, Sarah. 'Inscriptions: marking our place on architecture' On Site review, no. 19 Spring/Summer 2008©Sara Zolllinger and On Site review 

Graffiti vs. Architecture /Round 1

 Project 2.3 - Urban Design Project 

This short test animation I created is an abstract interpretation of the conflicting yet harmonious relationship between graffiti & the built environment.

"In this, buildings, the collection of stories told by architects, become the backdrop. The anonymous walls of anonymous buildings become canvases where the average person comes in contact with the city and meets the moment when our lives can inscribe the rigid world that we live in. This is where the people that walk the streets make architecture human: flexible, changeable and where we urban dwellers, who live our lives in the shadows of buildings, push back at an unyielding architecture."

Zollinger, Sarah. 'Inscriptions: marking our place on architecture' On Site review, no. 19 Spring/Summer 2008©Sara Zolllinger and On Site review 

REFLECTION OF TRANSIENCE / NARRATIVE

On Brick Lane by Rachel Lichtenstein is a portrait of one of the East End's most famous streets.  It uses research, interviews, poetry and photography from a wide range of people, including the Yiddish, Bengali and artist communities to tell the story of the area.  

Our film focuses on the transient nature of the populations passing through the area.  The entire narrative to our film is solely based on extracts from the book of the quotes from members of the community.

                                                     

  Illustrative Narrative / Part 1&2                                                        

Extracts