Description
This seminar with deal with the defamiliarization of tectonics possible through composite materials. Our focus will be on creating strange scalar effects and mysterious joinery and seaming techniques which create a sense of surprise and mystery not possible with mineral materials. We will investigate in particular how an object-oriented approach can contribute to the discourse of tectonics, in terms of moving beyond conventional part-to-whole relations towards an exceptionally high degree of discreteness and autonomy of components.
While the werewolf-- with its smooth transitions and becoming-- was an important analogy for theory and architecture of the 1990?s, we will trade that in for Frankenstein?s patchy, half-healed, stylized transitions. We will investigate the meta- possibilities of joints and seams, to become freeform, figural, and even fake, with the express intent of moving away from the homogenizing panelization promoted by parametric design.