Art Installation Model
For the design theory and criticism class, I made a model to show how does urban decay happen in cities and draw people’s attention to know what we do could make a destroyed city better or even revitalized. I was trying to make a abandoned area, like a ruins. So I collected some materials discarded by people, like food package bags, broken wood sticks, cardboards, iron wires. I also want to tell people something we think useless can be made to art.
In this model, I mainly want to create three parts of urban decay, they are rail road, building decay, and commercial ruins. As I just mentioned, construction of railroad lines always bypass urban decay. Changes in means of transport, from the public to the private—specifically, the private motor car—eliminated some of the cities' public transport service advantages, e.g., fixed-route buses and trains. When the economy depressed, the railroad and the railroad station are abandoned. A perfect example of Urban Decay in America known as Detroit's abandoned train station. A.K.A. Michigan Central Station. Michigan Central Station once was a thriving epicenter for the city of Detroit and the whole Midwest. Now the abandoned train station sits with most of it's windows broken. Some buildings were also torn down in the area, construction materials formed a ruins. It’s totally different to what it was.
With the development of economy, urban population was booming, it also attracted some commercial investment. Some restaurants were built, some foods were import from other places, which became an important part of people’s life here. Like McDonalds, this kind of fast food really developed at that time, this cheap and delicious food meet works’ need. However, when urban decay happened, those commercial areas were abandoned and those new-come brands were buried underground.
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