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Down the Block
von • by FreelandBuck

www.freelandbuck.com

Most of the projects in the portfolio of FreelandBuck, an archi-

tectural office with locations in California and New York, show

dynamic wall designs, intersecting levels, patterns or geome-

tries. This also goes for “Down the Block”, the new, permanent

installation in the lobby of the freshly renovated Behavioral

Health Center in Wollowbrook, Los Angeles. The image motifs

– digital photographs of the colourful, local single-family house

architecture – have here been structurally dissolved and alter-

natingly printed on two panels which are inserted in a deep

lightbox. This causes the amazing so-called parallax effect in

the viewers who are passing by, a felt vibration of the picture

surface measuring approximately 26 metres. The repetitive,

geometrical grid is an homage to the traditional “broken dish”

pattern of quilts typical of the region which are here produced

cooperatively by the Silver Spreads circle and donated to the

patients of the health centre. With their interactive, “stitched-

together” quilt of digital photographic material, FreelandBuck

formally refer to the local community cohesion as well as to

traditions of artisanship and architecture.