Expanding the Moire

My goal this week is to analyze, diagram, & utilize the moire in order to formulate a formal system (of rules) in order to negotiate the design process.  Here are some of the questions (with a few answers) I have been asking myself through this process:

What is a moire?
A system of interference that derives from a difference.  It is created and developed through the superimposition of repetitive layers (or inputs.) 
Where is the moire (within the project)?
Structure layout?  Enclosure pattern?  Enclosure/wall placement?  Furniture layout?  Systems layout?  Sectional conditions?  Tectonics?  Stairs?  Interior layering (wall layers, etc)?  The moire should be the underlying system for design decisions. 
How will the moire be visible?
What happens when you breakdown and remove the original inputs and utilize the both~and interference conditions?
How many inputs do you need?
What are the different types of inputs?
Where is the boundary?  Where and how does it terminate?  How is this determined?
What happens when the layers of the moire are pulled apart/stretched in one or more dimensions?  How can this be used as a formal system?
How can the moire extend beyond its visual implications?
What needs to be maintained in order to create the understanding of the moire?

Here are some initial studies I have been developing to answer some of these questions.

House of Oxymorons Competition Submission

I have submitted to the House of Oxymorons Competition.  I will wait until they post the entries on their website to post my entry here.

An image

Midterm Thesis Book

Here is the draft for my thesis book.

What am I trying to do? - A thesis statement

This thesis seeks to create an architecture that blurs the boundary between interior and exterior revealing a both~and condition that provides a connection between the built and surrounding environmen in order to set up a dynamic continuum of interactions.

Within the architectural discipline are a variety of dichotomies or juxtapositions that are treated and discussed as binary entities.  Rather than accepting an architecture that conforms to the traditional sets of "either/or" conditions, this thesis seeks to create an architecture that blurs the boundary between interior and exterior revealing a both~and conditions that provides a connection between the built and surrounding environment in order to set up a dynamic continuum of interactions.  Our world has increasingly begun to operate where communities and interpersonal connections are formed outside of our physical infrastructure and architecture.  Current culture allows us to "occupy" multiple places simultaneously and we no longer need to be physically present to be involved.  As these boundaries are softened, blurred, or even erased, architecture had the opportunity to exploit its traditional boundaries creating ambiguity and interstitial relationships.

The House of Split: A Study of Inside & Outside

Here is a draft of my current abstract:

Current culture allows us to “occupy” multiple places simultaneously. We no longer need to be physically present to be involved. Our world has increasingly begun to operate within a virtual realm where communities and connections are formed outside of our physical infrastructure and architecture. Because of this, the separation and borders that once existed between real~virtual and public~private have started to overlap, blur, and even disappear. Kazuyo Sejima states that perhaps contemporary architecture is a rethinking and softening of those borders that lie between the multiplicity of adjacencies. This projects seeks to erase the boundary between inside and outside to create architecture that has the ability to bridge the space and operate within the gap between interior and exteriority.