Thursday, March 23, 2017

3/21/2017 - The Third Obstruction: Exquisite Corpse

       For "Insertions Into Ideological Circuits," you are to take as generative the very representations of the given canonical building. Through cutting, collage, scale increase/decrease, weaving, cross-pasting, etc., develop out of the existing plans of the given building a new set of plans. The plans, from this, should be the generator of the building's new sectional and spacial conditions. Apply the same technique used to develop the plans to generate the elevations (albeit mediated by the findings in the sections), perspectives, etc. For these and other generative drawings, feel free to use the vast representational arsenal of the architect - not only from the given project but from his entire oeuvre; think of the possibilities of creating a project based on the surrealist technique of the "exquisite corpse." Additionally, keep in mind that the building has to the ground and its landscape.

       So my understanding of this project is that we are making a Frankenstein of Le Corbusier. We are to take our plans and any plans of a Le Corbusier building, cut them up and re attach them, keeping in mind patterns and forms that we create, to create new plans and sections for a building. The catch is we don't know the site, or what it is we are designing for , like is this going to be school? a hotel? or a restaurant? We don't know.
        So I did a few layouts, the first one, I just used the plans for the Maison Curutchet. I cut out rooms then reattached them to create new plans. But that isn't really what this project is about. We have to make patterns, not really paying attention to what we are making until the end, then look at the spaces that are created. So the next one I cut the plans into one inch strips and wove them together, trying to connect some of the lines, but in the end it didn't really define any spaces. So I tried again. This time I did a weaving of sorts, but not like a basket. I laid one strip down and placed the second so most of the lines and spaces connected, and so on and so on. Then by accident, the strips that were left over, the way I had them laid out, created another layout, and surprisingly, its actually my favorite out of them all.









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