The Castling

The Film:

Kasia Kwiecinska and I created this short film for an architectural research project. It is about how a simple house can turn into a chess academy.
Special thanks to the KwaThema Chess Academy for all their help.

A Zed and Two Noughts Network Diagram

This is a network diagram of the characters in the Peter Greenaway movie, A Zed and Two Noughts.

Peter Greenaway’s A Zed and Two Noughts (1985) shows how layered the simple aftereffects of an event (car accident) can be. His tale is in actual fact not really about an accident at all. The collision of a car with a swan is merely the catalyst for a narrative that links three disparate characters; twins (whose wives have died in the accident), Darwin (with his theory of evolution and Vermeer (the famous Dutch painter) (Greenaway 1985). Thus by adding a random event or character Peter Greenaway manages to warp the narrative of his film allowing ever bigger circles of satellite characters to begin orbiting around the three characters.

Mixed Narrative - Eduardo

Working on the KwaThema research project has opened my eyes to all the new possibilities of architecture and its growth.
It has become clear in our research that one cannot separate architecture and narrative. Every built outcome is a result of a story, every change means the possible inclusion of new characters, this is not merely a tree-shaped system, but quickly forms a network that is so intricate that one needs to act like an investigator to try and find the clues that best reveal the network.
Working with Anthonly that the chess park has meant an avalanche h of links, people, history and economy flooding towards us. I hope that we have set the right filters in place in order to make sense of this information.

KwaThema Networks - Eduardo

This is a video showing the beginnings of my research project for honours year architecture.
It is going to deal with representing the connections between people and the space they live in through the medium of film. Thus adding the element of time in quite a graphic way.