BSc Architecture Unit 4 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2013
Fig. 4.24 Saijel Taank, Y3, Comicon Los Angeles. The project proposes a new convention centre for the secondary Comicon event held annually in Los Angeles. Through the mediation of natural light using a series of optical devices, a series of unitised spaces are turned into fantastical internalised worlds derived from the style, framing and spatial rules of the comic book page. Through controlled circulations, and programmatic assessment of the genres of comic exhibited, a series of bespoke exhibition spaces are woven into the larger infrastructure of the site. Fig. 4.25 – 4.27 Chiara Barrett, Y3, The Tenets of Google Picturesque. The Google Picturesque dealt with the study of Los Angeles remotely through Google Earth and the ruptures that emerge between reality and the new forms of spatiality present within its internalised worlds.
The project catalogued and dissected the current anomalies in Google’s patented algorithm The Universal Texture, using these to develop a series of design proposals that formalised the anomalies into the physical world. Through discussing ideas of resolution, distortion, inversion and datum within the structure of Google Earth space, the project proposes fragments of glitch architecture built into the existing urban fabric that would play with the constant ‘optimisation’ of the Universal Texture software to become an indelible legacy of current digital trends.
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