Pracownia Działań Przestrzennych
Studio of Spatial Activities

Agnieszka Sobczak

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Growth of Warsaw Girls

19.09.2014

 

The Stimulating element of the project was the curve - grid percentile, showing increase in the ratio of girls to her age. The work is a triptych: 

A percentile grid called: ' A girl’s growth Warsaw 1968'

The scheme used to determine the standard height of girls. The vector of the percentile grid - means the development, maturation of a generation.  The table shows a raw statistical data, achieve an aims and pursuit to career, so it causes that  Warsaw is a city witch occurrence of extorts the pressure. In my project I would like to highlight common features generations of girls to whom I belong. Shows unaware, sudden physical growth connected with the work on each other, "reach" to the goals set by their own ambitions and the society.

A Sound of growing

Deep, extending, rough <<<<< eeeeeeeeeeee >>>>>  fills the entire space, although the instrument is outside of the medium which looks. The upward trend is undeniable human trait.  Since I was born, I want to above all to grow. Stretching yourself I storm certain structures in favor of new ones. You can see how produced sound, but you cannot see where is the source. The movement imitates a horizontal vector of the grid.

The Skyscraper on Smolna 8 street

The building is over a man.  Men is straight in the front of him , is much lower from him so he must lift up to the top. Vertical movement of the camera becomes extension and greed of human eyes, reach peak. Great, 19-th floor building on Smolna street designed by Jan Bogusławski and Bohdan Gniewiewski was built in’64-74 at the entrance to the city and the towering over the Skarpa and Powiśle. This high-rise become an important accent in panorama of  post-war Warsaw. In the same years was created the grid percentile of Warsaw girls.