DEMO Set

The first assignment was approached as a visual research and design move into polemicizing the notion of caves in architecture. The polemic: humans have been creating their own worlds in cave-like spaces for a long time, but today these kinds of spaces are ever more discrete, temporal, and lacking the kind of open ended connections, interactions and engagement that the original caves had. The case study of this polemic then was looking at how a typical single-family home was organized into spaces of storage: closets, garages, basements, and refrigerators.

4 panels (24x24):

The exercise was also a way to experiment and identify what my preferred visual methods and representation techniques were. Careful collecting, assembling, collaging and layering are part of my strength as generative tools for discussion. However, I have yet to find an effective rhetorical tool for editing or synthesizing topics for the thesis. What has worked in the past studios are gaming, rule making. or writing techniques but the nature of the assignment lacked the kind of reflective feedback system that a typical studio would have had.

Demo Set:

I don’t have any real interest in the topic of a house as a thesis project. However, the exercise and review did reveal topics like the module or the body that might play a role in my broader topical interest. I am more interested in studying eccentric spaces and places that reveal the potential dynamics and limits of a larger ecology. I am also hopeful that my thesis can propose design strategies that enhance, enable, or intervene in these kinds of systems. Summer readings that did influence my interest in this area are by Manuel DeLanda, Sanford Kwinter, and Peter Sloterdijk.