Adam
Atlas of Absence · Structural Void Documentation
'Digital Spolia'—using a digital twin to subvert the original architect's intent
The Spatial Re-appropriation: the Nazis chose this limestone quarry to 'ground' their ideology in the German soil, opposing the 'foreign' Catholic monastery on the peak. By placing Adam (the ultimate biblical archetype) directly into the Thingplatz, the creator is symbolically 'conquering' the Nazi space with the very religious iconography it sought to displace. It is a digital restoration of the 'Sacred' into a space designed for the 'Political'."
The 'Adam' as Counter-Monument: Nazi architecture is about crushing the individual to form a mass. The scanned Adam—naked, unarmored, and human-scale—acts as an 'Anti-Monument'. He looks incredibly small and fragile against the vast, quarry-hewn seating. This visualizes the crushing weight of that architecture on the individual human body."
The Glitch as History: the 'melted' trees and terrain not as a flaw, but as an accurate representation of 'Mnestic Decay' (the fading of memory). The Nazi site is shown as blurry, eroding, and imprecise (a 'ghost' in the machine), while the Adam figure is likely higher resolution, suggesting that the concept of 'Humanity' is more enduring than the specific political regime that built the theater."
A critical digital intervention that uses the 'Adam' figure to disrupt the fascist gaze of the St. Annaberg Thingstätte, exposing the tension between the site’s Nazi past and its religious/humanist surroundings
The Spatial Re-appropriation: the Nazis chose this limestone quarry to 'ground' their ideology in the German soil, opposing the 'foreign' Catholic monastery on the peak. By placing Adam (the ultimate biblical archetype) directly into the Thingplatz, the creator is symbolically 'conquering' the Nazi space with the very religious iconography it sought to displace. It is a digital restoration of the 'Sacred' into a space designed for the 'Political'."
The 'Adam' as Counter-Monument: Nazi architecture is about crushing the individual to form a mass. The scanned Adam—naked, unarmored, and human-scale—acts as an 'Anti-Monument'. He looks incredibly small and fragile against the vast, quarry-hewn seating. This visualizes the crushing weight of that architecture on the individual human body."
The Glitch as History: the 'melted' trees and terrain not as a flaw, but as an accurate representation of 'Mnestic Decay' (the fading of memory). The Nazi site is shown as blurry, eroding, and imprecise (a 'ghost' in the machine), while the Adam figure is likely higher resolution, suggesting that the concept of 'Humanity' is more enduring than the specific political regime that built the theater."
A critical digital intervention that uses the 'Adam' figure to disrupt the fascist gaze of the St. Annaberg Thingstätte, exposing the tension between the site’s Nazi past and its religious/humanist surroundings