While further investigating my thesis I stumbled upon an architectural competition which very closely aligns with my original thesis statement. It is pretty exciting to have found this and it helps feel more connected to the architectural community when others are seeking answers to the same question.
Here are two links to the competition.
The House of Oxymorons - Death by Architecture
The House of Oxymorons - ICARCH site. This site you will have to navigate to the competitions link because it is a Flash site.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Further thesis discussion
As I have mentioned before, the approach taken to this thesis resulted in more of a graphic/visual study of the both~and condition. It proved difficult to manifest in the spatial realm. When I originally proposed this thesis topic I had envisioned an architecture of experience. I wanted to explore the dualities through programmatic and spatial vehicles.
I am at a crossroads. The moire has offered a study in interference pattern. I could choose to exploit the relationships of interference. This could be translated through light in architecture. Can I design a house that is generation its space and perception of space through light and interference patterns? This would start to breakdown traditional means of architectural space forming a new dialogue on the boundary. The study could build from the Moire pattern studies and start to form and break down these patterns in order to create architectural space.
Another approach is understanding the effect versus the process for a solution. Is it the both~and effect or the both~and way of designing? A quick study to understand the difference between these two ways of utilizing the both~and concept will be done to show examples of how it can be process and how it can be effect. My abstract discusses contemporary architecture dualities but without defining what these maybe. Additionally, my current list of dualities remain very general and vague. Another exercise to complete is to start to define and list specific architectural dualities that could start to fit into my own definition of the both~and condition I am seeking. In discussing my thesis the word aleatory came up. I hadn’t though of my thesis as a study of that type of condition but the gap made by the both~and condition could definitely be defined as such. I am seeking an architecture that gives an awareness of a both~and condition spatially, programmatically, and visually. Could this be giving people a sense of being in two places at once through the use of transparency, slippage, cracking, layering, etc? The architecture should be about the "act of being" and different ways of being. The architecture will be about experience not just form. It is about the phenomenon and the layering of programmatic conditions that produce a third unexpected condition. It is possible that the moire patterns can be utilized and combined with other entities to reinforce the both~and experience of the architecture.
I am at a crossroads. The moire has offered a study in interference pattern. I could choose to exploit the relationships of interference. This could be translated through light in architecture. Can I design a house that is generation its space and perception of space through light and interference patterns? This would start to breakdown traditional means of architectural space forming a new dialogue on the boundary. The study could build from the Moire pattern studies and start to form and break down these patterns in order to create architectural space.
Another approach is understanding the effect versus the process for a solution. Is it the both~and effect or the both~and way of designing? A quick study to understand the difference between these two ways of utilizing the both~and concept will be done to show examples of how it can be process and how it can be effect. My abstract discusses contemporary architecture dualities but without defining what these maybe. Additionally, my current list of dualities remain very general and vague. Another exercise to complete is to start to define and list specific architectural dualities that could start to fit into my own definition of the both~and condition I am seeking. In discussing my thesis the word aleatory came up. I hadn’t though of my thesis as a study of that type of condition but the gap made by the both~and condition could definitely be defined as such. I am seeking an architecture that gives an awareness of a both~and condition spatially, programmatically, and visually. Could this be giving people a sense of being in two places at once through the use of transparency, slippage, cracking, layering, etc? The architecture should be about the "act of being" and different ways of being. The architecture will be about experience not just form. It is about the phenomenon and the layering of programmatic conditions that produce a third unexpected condition. It is possible that the moire patterns can be utilized and combined with other entities to reinforce the both~and experience of the architecture.
Goals:
-Brainstorm SPECIFIC contemporary architectural dualities
-Brainstorm effect versus process of the both~and
-Start to re-read Crime & Punishment
-Start to formulate spatial conditions to reflect brainstormed ideas from above.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Warming up
So the spring semester (my final semester!!!) starts on Monday (Jan 25.) I am using this entry to get myself back in the mind set of school. I have been working in studio this week, doing some "light" reading and starting to pick up where I left off last semester.
I have gotten some read back separate from my blog which has been helpful and encouraging. At the end of last semester I realized that my thesis is less about producing the both/and condition and more about what the both/and condition within architecture can do to create new spatial experiences and situations. "What can the both/and condition do for you?" I have been able to produce a simple form of the both/and condition with the moire studies but it needs to step forward and be applied to a different condition in order to result in something other than itself. What is the effect of having a both/and condition within a spatial condition or design?
It has been pointed out that I seem to be separating wave and particle into distinct entities rather than emphasizing that they an "ultimate" both/and condition in that waves experience particle phenomenon and vice versa. This idea is the essence of my thesis. This is where my thesis started. The idea of something being two things at once or rather, being both until observed and being in a basic flux between two entities.
I have gotten some read back separate from my blog which has been helpful and encouraging. At the end of last semester I realized that my thesis is less about producing the both/and condition and more about what the both/and condition within architecture can do to create new spatial experiences and situations. "What can the both/and condition do for you?" I have been able to produce a simple form of the both/and condition with the moire studies but it needs to step forward and be applied to a different condition in order to result in something other than itself. What is the effect of having a both/and condition within a spatial condition or design?
It has been pointed out that I seem to be separating wave and particle into distinct entities rather than emphasizing that they an "ultimate" both/and condition in that waves experience particle phenomenon and vice versa. This idea is the essence of my thesis. This is where my thesis started. The idea of something being two things at once or rather, being both until observed and being in a basic flux between two entities.
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