From 1917 onwards the City of Birmingham Corporation amassed around 85 acres of land to enable the realisation of the inner ring road. The ‘creative destruction’ of large-scale infrastructure dramatically shifted the function and image of the city, as examined in Appleyard, Lynch and Myers work ‘The View from the Road’, which offered a new taxonomy and notation for experiencing urban space in cities. Navigation_x-40 captures the visual field of the inner ring road through photogrammetry offering an uncertain condition of mobility, accompanied by recreations of the taxonomy of the 'View from the Road'.
Navigation_x marks a major transition in not only the form of Paradise but also the function - from civic to commercial. Specifically, it captures a moment in the demolition of the modernist Central Library (John Madin, 1974) in 2016. The model/film, generated from the demolition contractors drone footage, documents not the end of this much contested structure but secures its future presence. The accompanying soundtrack and graphic uses the structural logic of the building as its starting point.