Wall Assembly
Wall Assembly is an architectural installation located at Maple St. Construct in Omaha, Nebraska.
The ambition of Wall Assembly is to realize a full size architectural folly of everyday building materials sourced in Omaha, Nebraska. The folly of Wall Assembly is composed, arranged and constructed from everyday readymade building materials, that are altered and assembled in playful manner. As a folly, Wall Assembly plays up the distinction between uselessness and usefulness. Wall Assembly is generated by two walls that meet to form a “V” around an existing column in the plan of the gallery. While Wall Assembly has no immediate function, its placement in the gallery breaks up and reorients the adjacent vertical surfaces as well as circulation through the gallery. Finally, all four elevations of Wall Assembly are designed to produce different compositional effects as one moves around the installation. For example, the interior of the “V” of Wall Assembly, the construction framing is left exposed, or partially exposed, and painted, suggesting another layer of the overall composition in a wall that would typically remain hidden.
