02 UNIVERSITY WORKS OPTION STUDIO 3 - EQUATORIAL VILLA
VOXEL VILLA BRIEF: The idea of a space that exists purely for pleasure carries with it the reek of hedonism. In the data-driven city we architects work as optimizers- as happy agents of efficiency. Only in extremis are we faced with purely aesthetic quandaries. But with this problem the apparent solidity of quantitative method fails us. How can we design the superfluous, the beautiful? The studio inititates to propose an architecture equatorial in its relation to its position on our spherical world, but also in its mediation of the logics of exteriority (landscape, site) and interiority (form, proportion, rhythm), through the use of data-driven tools.
TUTOR PETER ORTNER || INDIVIDUAL SITE CONEY ISLAND || 13 WEEKS VOXEL VILLA serves as a constant critique of the natural versus synthetic environment, proposing a cohesive language between the two. Inspired by our interaction with nature, the villa reinteprets the visual encounters we have with the forest to create a spatial experience for its visitors. It distintegrates the chunky, obtrusive form of a typical building into discrete voxels, which extends and reach towards the surrounding trees, reimagining how the man-made structure could intertwine and reconnect back with nature.