Texas A&M University. Department of Architecture Fall 2017.
Totemism. a Gallery fo Louise Nevelson, Houston, TX.
Student: Finn Rattana
I am using the notion of totemic as an ontological exploration and as a
strategy of stacking 3 different ontologies to become one,
In my specific case, I began my project by borrowing some ideas of my
original indexical model as some kind of interpretation that brought certain
parts back, however presented them in a different sense.
The project is about the argument FIGURE and poche as well as the idea
of representation using 2-dimensional
flatness of the architectural image giving a graphic sense and 3-dimensional
objects.
I started by taking the idea of
the figural objects from the indexical model of the Kronish House by Richard Neutra.
After that, I used a sculpture, Night Flight by Louise Nevelson misreading it
as a manual to conform the section.
By exploring with scaling, extrusion, and booleaning methods, the
objects start to have a relationship that connected the different objects by a
series of local contingencies beginning to read as one object, however the real
connection comes from something else. From there, I introduced figure in
different ways such as:
figure as poche,
figure as space,
figure as small and large objects,
figure as ground
However, the project is not just about the figures, but also dealing
with the idea of flatness to volume or mass or the relationship of
2-dimensional to 3-dimensional.
The front façade argues the idea of flatness which is 2-dimensional,
but from the back, it is about a 3-
dimensional object that brings a flat plane and volume together. The figures used
in the project start to tie everything together. Moreover, the object is also
but the use of linework, this
becomes a critical moment where all of these lines begin to interact throughout
the project. This idea was taken from my
indexical model .
As the linework comes across and goes though the ground and starts to
build up into the project in different ways, it starts interacting and making
connections between the ground and the objects. Then, it becomes its own
profile, then as window mullion, as elevation or even become ornamentation.
The ground and the object are basically connected by the idea of the
figure, that happens is mass and volume but also in plan and section. in other
words figure and line work brings the object together, the project is a weirdly
hybridized object that falls into a speculative type, it addresses the
post-digital criteria of a combination of Lo-Fi or Hi-Fi operations. Like most
of the projects in the class my object becomes an architecture of defiance
challenging norms of aesthetics by using the release of the figure.
