Faults

Faults, aims at displaying certain continuities, and therefore discontinuities, within HCH´s buildings. Mostly, it focuses on relations comprised within the facades of the buildings and the subject of tectonics from a bottom-up approach. A series of photocollages consisting of two photos in relation to two buildings are joined together in order to reveal both, alignments and fractures among materials, rhythms, compositions, dimensions, colors, elements, material formats,…

The title Faults adopts and expands from the original geological and tectonic meaning of a fault seen as a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement. Furthermore, a fault trace or fault line is a place where the fault can be seen or mapped on the surface and it is also the line commonly plotted on geologic maps to represent a fault . This real and abstract line of a fault zone has motivated the making and the specific layout of the photocollages, in which continuities and discontinuities between the two buildings become explicit alongside the line.