COMPILE SERIES
Similar to the modular function of the shipping container, the constructed components of the modern city can easily have new additions stacked around or in addition to those already present. Just as easily, the old sections can be deleted from the collection of components.The effect of the new additions
With this series of research works, I wanted to contextualize the city as stacks of modular parts that could assemble (or be de-assembled) into its recognizable constructed components.
I intended for these works to express how the built elements of a city (factories, office buildings and housing) compile into place over time and give shape to the city and that the activity they house impacts the function/form/future of the city. The transported goods that are then produced or required by the housed activity connect the city to the globalized economy. In turn, these local locations become the backdrop for the daily movements and interactions of a city's populace.
The atmosphere of the resulting activity can influence the customs, manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character. This becomes the 'local colour' of a place. This led me to the decision to utilise the colours from the specific locations where each of these compiled constructions would be found.
To identify the locations that each work is based on, the titles reference the international identification code system used for shipping containers. These codes are a string of letters and numbers that uniquely identify each shipping container with a place. For the works in the Compile Series, one code is used to describe a single stack of containers to uniquely identify a location that conceivably could have been built, supplied or affected by the receipt or delivery of their contents. Here is an example of how the code is constructed:
-A three-letter general place identifier (SYD = Sydney, CBR = Canberra, QBY = Queanbeyan, etc.)
-A single letter structure identifier (C = City, F = Factory, H = House)
-A six number detail of location (002000 is the post code for Sydney’s central business district)
-A single form number (4 = four boxes in a stack, 3 = three boxes in a stack, etc.)
