A brief case study - Carnegie Mellon Research Institute

Peter Eisenman designed the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute through the use of the Boolean cube or n-cube.  The diagram below shows Eisenman's development and use of this logic.

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Boolean Cube diagram - Adriana Rossi - Nexus Network Journal

The Boolean cube provides many possible connections for each of the corner nodes.  The project consists of a series of pairs of cubes; one being solid while the other is a transparent frame containing the inverse of the other, building a relationship between solid and void.

Here is the architectural consequence:

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This case study shows how a relationship can be developed between solid and void in a more complex manor.  The void framework cube with the solid cube work together to form a whole composition.  They are inversions of each other.