/Balcony_Collapse

Failed Architecture | Film | Installation

Balcony Collapse is an installed large format projection inspired by JG Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise, taking the form of a slow motion montage detailing the mysterious collapse of a balcony on the top floor of an apartment block.

The film investigates the fragile hierarchical codes present within residential architectures, and also how we perceive the importance of private external spaces in urbanised areas. In the high rise apartment block, the balcony symbolises a visual ownershership over a "view", and as a result, an abstract economic value is applied to the landscape. Ballard's novel explores the tensions that arise in a vertically-organised social hiercharchy, and that ultimately lead to a destructive human act - in Balcony Collapse, this act occurs without an "agent of violence", instead the focus is on the process of collapse itself.

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