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THE EXTENSION OF LIGHT

Market-Station LOCATION

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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35000 Ft2

March, 2021

This studio session will treat the typology of cities and urban market stations as assemblages that exist in the space between categories, defying categorization at the intersection of geometry and society. Thus, architectural objects are composed of distributed elements and events through temporal collections of materials, data, qualities and experiences. Considered in this way, the market station as an urban condition can be seen as a condensation of different qualities, social/cultural/economic realities and spatial/material moments that often intersect, collide, mix and disperse. Here, the residues of the past persist as artifacts whose echoing persistence produces an overarching sense of integrated identity and character.

Collecting and cataloging will play an initial role in this workshop, but not as a means to reach a particular truth or set of facts. Rather, these collections will serve as a way to decouple our ingrained preconceptions about the system and its images, to find the space where quantity gives way to quality; to defy categorization in order to dispel assumptions about identity in a potential state that is neither: between categories. Images will play a central role in this investigation-as material, mediator, and model.

The design project starts from the study of light, and the relationship between architecture and light is always complex but full of fun. The design inspiration from collection and research guides the generation of the assemblage. With the intervention of light, these assemblages exhibit many rich textures that speak to the different relationships between architecture and light and shadow. From these concepts, the creation of architectural forms and the design of interior spaces are gradually completed with a deeper consideration of light and shadow.

Swatches

Hybrid Assemblages

Primitives

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