THE EMPIRE

Playing in the game of part to whole, the project looks at the potential of a gestural cut as a device for the production of dualities in an ontologically weak system. Concepts of insideout, open-close, right-wrong are challenged on a surface in continuous evolution between opposing identities.

Following the contemporary explorations of the 2.5D canvas in the post-digital era, the project investigates the architectural facade as a space of multiplicities and singularity, deeply public and in an infinite state of fluxation. (Course Abstract)

The Sticky Grid is a graphical outcome of Grasshopper scripting and postprocessing to form a hyper-flat sticker. The line patterns are used to make a panel bound to a robot arm. The robotic simulations created patterns; one of which was transfered to a MDF board to form a temporary column.

INTEGRATED LANDSCAPES questions the contemporary status of the image in architecture. The project began with a process of extracting visual and physical information from a site in Chinatown, Los Angeles as well as several urban artifacts of diverse scales. The aim was to produce a composite form of selected source material derived from the site that redefines the formal relationship inherent in selected elements and convert these into an architectural scale.