INHAUS
Portobello Wharf
INHAUS was drawn for the window facade of the De Blacam and Meagher designed residence at Portobello Wharf by the canal. The modernist glass-box fronted structure supplies the inhabitants a grand view of the mountains over one of the oldest thouroughfares in Dublin, and the passer-by a voyeristic look within.
This architectural intervention is a part of a series of life scale interior drawings by artist Oisin Byrne. The piece depicts a maximalist and lush gothic interior in minimalist black ink line drawing. Through large scale drawing panels, the artist installs a trompe l’oiel vaulted ceiling into this modernist cuboid. We are granted vision into an interior and peculiar realm. Not mathematical or cartesian, the drawing is ostensibly human: hand-made and wobbly, perspectives faltering, and patterns fluctuating. The columnades and vaulting are headed - literally - with faces and profiles, inhabiting and animating the architecture.
INHAUS was initiated and achieved as a collaborative commision with the structure's inhabitants. Placing the drawing in the window, the viewer is both supplied with, and denied a vision of their private space: the drawing is both introspected and projected. As persona, it is resolutely still an outer layer, referencing an interior and intimate world.
Portobello Wharf
INHAUS was drawn for the window facade of the De Blacam and Meagher designed residence at Portobello Wharf by the canal. The modernist glass-box fronted structure supplies the inhabitants a grand view of the mountains over one of the oldest thouroughfares in Dublin, and the passer-by a voyeristic look within.
This architectural intervention is a part of a series of life scale interior drawings by artist Oisin Byrne. The piece depicts a maximalist and lush gothic interior in minimalist black ink line drawing. Through large scale drawing panels, the artist installs a trompe l’oiel vaulted ceiling into this modernist cuboid. We are granted vision into an interior and peculiar realm. Not mathematical or cartesian, the drawing is ostensibly human: hand-made and wobbly, perspectives faltering, and patterns fluctuating. The columnades and vaulting are headed - literally - with faces and profiles, inhabiting and animating the architecture.
INHAUS was initiated and achieved as a collaborative commision with the structure's inhabitants. Placing the drawing in the window, the viewer is both supplied with, and denied a vision of their private space: the drawing is both introspected and projected. As persona, it is resolutely still an outer layer, referencing an interior and intimate world.
