ads4 horse studio brief

"an exploration of the relationship between the idea of a dwelling and the functionality of a house - and the opportunity to conceive of poetic and imaginative relations between these states."

Berlin night character

Clock operator – central clock


"He operates and controls the pendulum clock. He selects one log per year, 12" long and 12” in diameter. The clock records the passing of months. The log is put horizontally into a circular hole in the clock tower with 1" at the end jutting out. The pendulum of the tower is set in motion and begins to cut through the log. It takes one month for the pendulum to slice through the 1" thick 1" long exposed piece of the 12" log. The piece drops into the sand. The piece is picked up by the clock man and is placed through a vertical steel rod, which is 12" high. The rod is one of a hundred vertical spikes 12" high located in the woods. The remaining 11" of the log is cut over the remaining eleven months of the year. At the end of a hundred years twelve hundred pieces will have been cut down and one hundred spikes will have impaled twelve hundred one foot long pieces of wood. The blade of the pendulum is sharpened by a female barber."

The clock tower operator lives by the time. This applies not only to an anologue clock, but the sun. The clock tower operator can tell the time down the minute from looking at the sun's position during the day. His day to day activities are reflected by the time of the day, and the amount of sunlight entering the space of the activity. The dwelling in that he lives should be divided up into spaces with different amounts of sunlight entering the different spaces, and he could therefore act out his day to day routines purely through experience and vision, in an effortless and natural process.

The clock tower operator is 30 years of age, and from his work is used to working in confined spaces. He is quite withdrawn and has always been the observer, looking at people from above. This is in contrast to the way in which he wants to exist, and craves the sunlight as he rarely is in contact with it.