T4T LAB Spring 2016. Object Redux.
Invited Professor
Adam Fure
Team: Cody Clancy, David Forero, Paul Germaine McCoy, Matt Foster
As Built Drawings is an exploration of the
manifestation of form through line and figure, utilizing deformation as a set
of tools to achieve meta-reality.
"To operate critically with the instrument of architecture
implies a deformation of architecture itself: it has to change from language
into meta language, it must speak of itself, it must explore its own code
without leaving it, except for very carefully measured experiments."
- Manfredo
Tafuri
A characteristic of the post-digital era
is the access to the historical canon as a set of data. We acquired freely
accessible geometries and drawings, treated them as raw data, and through the
deformation of architectural tools, produced new geometry. Through continuous
deformations we uncover the resilience of the substance that the operations
cannot exhaust. Intentional exploitation of the methods of drawing , such as
technique and viewpoint in relation to the directionality of cut-plane of such
drawings (plan-oblique, axonometric section cuts etc.) produces the reality of
the drawing AND figure through the forced occurrence of conditions, languages,
and parts.
The produced is a new object; changing the
inflection of the qualities in the original geometries to establish new form
and spatial configurations. The qualities produced, such as the excess
overlap of of line and figure (treatment of poche, thick-thin, interstitiality,
delamination, and corner condition) provoke new realities of architectural
language: a visual meta-language. Expressed within each reality is a new
architectural syntax that is nevertheless accepted as such.
