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.

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.