Potential Architecture
THE INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF POTENTIAL ARCHITECTURE is an online collection of the half-baked, the promising, the raw and the invisible architecture; Projects that miscarried, went over the top, were turned down by clients or for other reasons never became realised.
The idea is to create a database of this collective knowledge, designed as a
user-generated web platform with continuously added projects. A statistical
representation and survey of the collection will provide insight into this undisclosed
realm. The collection will be a gathering of visions, ideas that will forever
remain unrealised, but hopefully not made in vain. Together these projects can
show a hidden potential and intelligence, and hence create a better and more
complete understanding of the current state of global architectural production.
The project is directed by Espen Røyseland and Øystein Rø, and was part of the Oslo Triennale for architecture in 2007.
The project was also presented at the Madrid Week of Architecture in October 2009, and will be presented at the Architecture Foundation in London, spring 2010.