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costal mutant COSTAL MUTANTS//SPATIAL INTERLOCK mutant: permanent harmful or helpful alteraton condition: free standing, elevated territory: Gulf Coast, Texas program: house + studio
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This project is a house and studio for a painter named Hunnington Jenewein from Vienna, Austria. The main aspect that shaped the parti sketches where Hunnington’s unique form of transportation: a hot air balloon. There as an inherent need to achieve height (to launch and land on the structure) without turning the project into a tower. Through this, the objective of a mutant was investigaed spatially: mutating single volumes into double volumes. The main goal is to inspire the sensation one would feel when entering a double volume from a single volume with the explosion of space. Then, as one would ascend to the second floor of the double volume, move through the single volume space to arrive at the bottom floor of another double volume. This is then repeated and mutated to achieve the neccesary height for the hot _ air balloon.
_ we define architecctural mutants as harmful or helpful but permannent alterations of an original type. Basic geometres will be modified as a continuous process of mutation. While shape, apperance and spatial qualitites will change, the original type has to stay the same. Different models of the same type will be created.
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