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c.a.f.a atelier 央艺

Paper Topography

Index
011
Status
Completed
Year
2024
Discipline
Spatial Illustration

Two kilometres of riverbank cut into seventeen sheets along its contour lines, then stacked back up. A visitor can pull out any one layer, and at that moment the river loses a metre.

Design
Zhou Yan
Mentor
Xu Qinghe
A riverbank modelled as seventeen stacked paper contours.
The cavity left when the ninth layer is pulled out.
The cutting drawing for a single contour.
Stacked edges under raking gallery light.
All seventeen layers drawn out and laid flat on the floor.
The drop between contours, seen from the side.
Fingerprints left by visitors pulling layers, in the third week.