Texas A&M University. Department of Architecture. T4T LAB Spring 2015.
ALIEN, MESSY, DISCRETE
Invited Professor: Gilles Retsin
With Gabriel Esquivel
Team: Francisco Reyes, Davis Eubanks, Cathy Florece, Jose De Leon.
The project based on Franz Kline’s painting The Ballantine, simplifies
itself in to a single line. This line is a drawing machine quantifying itself
to completion, where the more it is the more it draws, this action creates operational
qualities which we don’t know what they are. This dogma applies to every single
new machine or “stroke” that is related to itself in a flat plane of eminence
outside of human knowledge. Nevertheless
this drawing machine reaches a level of absolutism performing its own duties,
where architecture becomes as it follows its characteristics instead of being
in contraposition. This Deleuzian flux machine is being captured in a glimpse
of its existence, where we don’t know its beginning nor end as well as its
scale, making humans the ones who accept it as an ecological machine rather
than IT changing to human needs. For humans to communicate with this drawing machine we have capture different
glimpses of the machine where the line is always present but we don’t know its
location, intensions, scale or materiality.
“The mass” as we call it is our
attempt to understand the composite machine as a Mega-structure, expanding its
endo-system which can be placed in any context anywhere making this drawing machine
non-conforming to any reality but its
own, embedded by its own standards found at any given time. The line can be two
characteristics; one very organized and another one jerky and messy.
The Chunk produced by another
moment of this machine will continue to be and develop as a Deluzian flux object
as well as the mass. The Chunk of this mega-structure can behave as any part of
the house, composed by different bundles of lines that are discontinues in a
spatial-temporal revelation. These instance can reveal that the machine can create
discontinues machines placed in space which are still on a direct connection
with this autonomous object, creating an illusion of what we understand as a
whole even though this machine keeps on fluxing, expanding and drawing.
The Details can show in further understandment how the machines relate
to themselves to create a new machine or part where the human interaction can
happen in a supra scales object meant as language and instrumentation.
