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the impossible galleryis located in the beautiful and vast blue mountains in new south wales australia… it is, and will remain impossible for many reasons… mainly built from discarded materials, the object is and will remain impossible because it does not intend to comply with any built regulation… but raise the question of the unforgivable amount of waste that the building industry produces....  the object is and will remain impossible because the intention is not to seek economic profit from the individuals using, exhibiting, singing, camping, cooking or exploring the space…  the object is and will remain impossible because it will evolve, shrink or expand as the space is used and shared…  the object is and will remain impossible because the access in not evident, nor does it intend to be... we made a number of proposals… but we quickly adapted due to readily available materials gathered…






 


forced perspectives

seeks to portray the first ideas about shelter and the assimilation of site in a piece… it is an exercise where we explored architectural gestures with a simple palette extracted from the colours we found in the land… a flower, foliage, clouds, bark… sintetized, abstracted, disjoint and then remodelled into a flat surface… it was imperative that the background expressed its materiality, wood being inherently expressive was the material of choice…giving us explicit hints that would ripple on the atelier’s name....  and as we thought about the scale, standardization came to our minds, how we are taught to fit in a mould, a size, when evidently we are all different, bigger than the bounding perimetrs we are allowed to inhabit… so we thought of dynamic shapes intending to extend past the boundaries of the flat surface...we knew that this collection would be the impossible gallery opening exhibit… 
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