Abstract architectural interior featuring reflective gold and silver mirrored panels with distorted geometric reflections.
Abstract architectural interior featuring reflective gold and silver mirrored panels with distorted geometric reflections.

Junkspace

(Chunks. Junkspace is post existential, it makes you uncertain where you are, obscures where you go, undoes where you were)

A green neon angel light hangs over a modern multi-level shopping mall with escalators and checkered flooring.
A green neon angel light hangs over a modern multi-level shopping mall with escalators and checkered flooring.

Junkspace

(The Angel. Because Junkspace is endless, it is never closed… Renovation and restoration were procedures that took place in your absence; now, we’re a witness, a reluctant participant)

High-angle view of shoppers walking through a busy modern mall, seen through a glass barrier next to an escalator.
High-angle view of shoppers walking through a busy modern mall, seen through a glass barrier next to an escalator.

Junkspace

(Shopping Paradise. Junkspace knows all your emotions, all your desires. It is the interior of Big Brother’s belly. It preempts people’s sensations)

A man walks down an escalator in a modern building with reflective mirrored surfaces and geometric architecture.
A man walks down an escalator in a modern building with reflective mirrored surfaces and geometric architecture.

Junkspace

(Confusion. Junkspace seems an aberration, but it is the essence, the main thing… the product of an encounter between escalator and airconditioning)

High-angle view of shoppers on multiple levels of a modern multi-story shopping mall with escalators and a snack time sign.
High-angle view of shoppers on multiple levels of a modern multi-story shopping mall with escalators and a snack time sign.

Junkspace

(Snacktime. Everywhere in Junkspace there are seating arrangements, ranges of modular chairs, even couches, as if the experience Junkspace offers its consumers is significantly more exhausting than any previous spacial sensation)

A woman and man ride a modern escalator surrounded by shiny metallic panels reflecting abstract light and architecture.
A woman and man ride a modern escalator surrounded by shiny metallic panels reflecting abstract light and architecture.

Junkspace

(Regurgitator. Junkspace thrives on design, but design dies in Junkspace. There is no form, only proliferation... Regurgitation is the new creativity; instead of creation, we honour, cherish, and embrace manipulation)

Low-angle view of a modern shopping mall interior with mirrored ceilings reflecting shoppers on moving escalators.
Low-angle view of a modern shopping mall interior with mirrored ceilings reflecting shoppers on moving escalators.

Junkspace

(Reflections. To show respect, symmetries are maintained and helplessly exaggerated; ancient building techniques are resurrected and honed to irrelevant shine)

Black and white architectural photo of a modern shopping mall with escalators and geometric ceiling mirrors.
Black and white architectural photo of a modern shopping mall with escalators and geometric ceiling mirrors.

Junkspace

((Stair-)Ways to Heaven. Junkspace is additive, layered, and lightweight, not articulated in different parts but subdivided, quartered the way a carcass is torn apart in individual chunks, severed from a universal condition)

High-angle view of modern steel escalators in a busy mall with people traveling between floors.
High-angle view of modern steel escalators in a busy mall with people traveling between floors.

Junkspace

(Dreamtime. Because it cannot be grasped, Junkspace cannot be remembered. It is flamboyant, yet unmemorable, like a screensaver; its refusal to freeze ensures instant amnesia)

Top down view of shoppers on moving escalators in a modern multi-level shopping mall with geometric architecture.
Top down view of shoppers on moving escalators in a modern multi-level shopping mall with geometric architecture.

Junkspace

(Destination Unknown. An escalator takes you to an invisible destination, facing a provisional vista made of plaster, inspired by forgettable sources)

High-angle view of people using modern escalators in a busy, multi-level shopping mall or public transit hub.
High-angle view of people using modern escalators in a busy, multi-level shopping mall or public transit hub.

Junkspace

(Elements. There was once a polemic about the right angle and the straight line; now the ninetieth degree has become one among many. In fact, remnants of former geometries create ever new havoc, offering forlorn nodes of resistance that create unstable eddies in newly opportunistic flows)

A high-angle view of a modern multi-level shopping mall featuring geometric patterns and glass reflections.
A high-angle view of a modern multi-level shopping mall featuring geometric patterns and glass reflections.

Junkspace

(Shopping Squares. If space-junk is the human debris that litters the universe, Junkspace is the residue mankind leaves on the planet. The built product of modernisation is not modern architecture but Junkspace)

All subtitles of Junkspace images are quotes from Rem Koolhaas' essay "Junkspace"