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LAMP SEQUENTIAL STUDY (left _ images) as the catalyst for mechanization, a lamp's mechanized characteristics are recorded and moments of spatialization (interaction) are exposed and taggedANALOG

TRACE DIAGRAM (left _ drawing)

models were studied through the tracing of mechanized characteristics and spatial resultants were generated LAMP TECHNICAL ANALYSIS (top-top _ drawing) as the catalyst for mechanization, a lamp was drawn and studied to extract mechanization characteristics

MECHANIZATION ANALOG TRACE DIAGRAM (top-bottom _ drawings _ images)

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ELEVATION SEQUENCE OF OPERATION (left _ drawing) tagged and rendered at major instances of performance, the prototype restricts, and allows, levels of interaction with the architectural intervention

ISOMETRIC (top _ drawing) (2).

COTTON - FIELD VALUE ANALYSIS (left _ drawing _ image) analyzing the relationship between crop + farmer + land values + and infrastructural proxomities expose the need for an architectural intervention of disruption

( 1 ). prototype for

spatial mechanization ( 2 ). irrigation : restroom ( 3 ). infrastructure(s) fiction ( 4 ). vol. [two] ( 5 ). [de _constructive realities]

a water-color series ( 6 ). insurgent identifaction

+ [in-vitro] formulation

a portfolio consisting of undergraduate studies at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas

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an architecture of landscape It is a false assumption that architecture is the built environment in its entirety. Architecture disrupts the built environment through the manipulation of the interaction of four strata; political, economic, social, and geography - the landscape. The landscape is the medium through which architecture reaches its ability to generate new social constructs, disrupting the status quo and eliciting new territories of economics, politics, and society.

Landscape has evolved from the painting of a perspective in the early Roman ages to being the real physical subject of the once landscape painting in current fields of science and design. The recent understanding of landscape has limited architecture, and those industries and societies who employ landscape as a means of economic production. The current understanding of landscape is only an ecological ‘being’ affecting biological conditions. This ‘being’ is then employed in societies and industries as a system through which to make decisions on occupation and two-dimensional understandings of ecology, and organism patterns.

A new definition of landscape is needed to reveal architecture’s role in politics, society, and economics.

Architecture is required to operate at the scale of the landscape to generate change in any field of interaction between its strata. Recent urban studies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, conducted in a graduate level urban design studio, have acted as catalyst for the search of a new landscape. More specifically, political demonstrations in the urban have raised personal questions relating to the meaning of landscape, revealing the potential for architecture to articulate the relationship between strata in the landscape.

Insurgent Identification ( portfolio ) was the first attempt at constructing a new understanding of landscape as a system eliciting urbanization in Rio de Janeiro. This research has revealed a new trajectory for the study of architecture, at the scale of the landscape, questioning the limited production of building and suggesting for the new production of landscape - an architecture of landscape.

AXONOMETRIC STUDY (left _ drawing)

VOLUME SPAWNING ANALYSIS ( _ drawing)

IRRIGATION:RESTROOM (top _ image)

post-facto, the spawning of volumes from the combinatory assemblages is further studied to reveal agencies in line, mass, and planar elements

PLAN (left _ drawing _ image) ISOMETRIC ISOLATION (right _ drawing)

'THE PHANTOM TRACE' COMBINATORY SYNTHESIS VOLUME MANIPULATION (left _ drawing)

COMPOSITE STUDY (top _ drawing)

imperfections in the combinatory assemblage and the urban assemblies are mapped. with the understanding of the imperfect landsape, the imperfections in the volume and elemental combinatory models generate the 'phantom - trace' model

systems of order are manipulated in response to the status quo defined by the agriindustry in Lubbock, Texas

PERSPECTIVE (top _ image) (3).

'PHANTOM TRACE' MODEL ELEVATION (top + bottom _ model)

URBAN ASSEMBLAGES (left _ image) expressing the fictional infrastructural discrepency in downtown Denver, Colorado, the ghosted model manipulation situates urban assemblages against their native fictions

COMPOSITE INFRASTRUCTURAL STUDY (left _ drawing _ model _ image) the auraria campus and downtown infrastructural grids are superimposed to expose relationships between the urban landscape and the social interaction rendered as a result of the imperfections in city-planning

Assebemlies of five orthogonal elements assemble in a, native, non-perfect landscape, the analog proccess.

urban assemblages are combined and re-articulated into combinatory studies. the combinatory proccess illuminates the imperfections resulting from the nalog proccess.

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URBAN ASSEMBLAGES (left _ images)

COMBINATORY ASSEMBLAGES (top-right _ images)

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VOL. [TWO] OFFICE BUILDING MAP (left _ drawing) office building typologies are studied in relation to levels of river-walk pedestrian accessibility and parking locations in

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table of contents

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prototype for spatial mechanization

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irrigation : restroom

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infrastructure(s) fiction

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vol. [two]

(iii - iv). [de _constructive realities] a water-color series (35).

insurgent identifaction + [in-vitro] formulation

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counter-weight initiated arm movement engaged

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prototype for spatial mechanization Fall 2014 Professor Jeffrey Nesbit

A kinetic intervention, this prototype for spatial mechanization stems from a technical analysis of a lighting device. Sequential performances of the lamp are abstracted to construct a triptych diagram, programming the kinetic characteristics of the new device - a prototype.

LAMP SEQUENTIAL STUDY (left _ images) as the catalyst for mechanization, a lamp's mechanized characteristics are recorded and moments of spatialization (interaction) are exposed and tagged

Lines are traced from the technical analysis,identifying agencies in line types and territorial proximities to provide agency in the architectural construct. Key aspects in the limited range of motion, displayed in the accompanying image sequence (left), define a local sense of time. An idea of time generated through the operation of the lamp.

Influenced by the actual occupation of the abstracted lines, surfaces form through the multiplication of elements and

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an abstraction of sequential orders from the lamp to the spatial experience of the user.

This spatial prototype operates via rotation in response to the location of the user within, or outside of, the territory the prototype claims. As the user approaches the assembly of lines the prototype rotates to reveal opportunities of spatial interaction.

ANALOG TRACE DIAGRAM (left _ drawing) models were studied through the tracing of mechanized characteristics and spatial resultants were generated

STAGE 01 [territorial influence] prototype attempts to persuade surrounding urban occupants to engage with the assembly

as the catalyst for mechanization, a lamp was drawn and studied to extract mechanization characteristics

STAGE 02 [the reveal] surfaces comprised of arrayed lines enable temporary occupation while providing opportunities to look out amongst the surrounding territories

MECHANIZATION ANALOG TRACE DIAGRAM (top-bottom _ drawings _ images)

STAGE 03 [dump-drive] temporary occupants are

LAMP TECHNICAL ANALYSIS (top-top _ drawing)

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ejected from the prototype via closing of assembly As a result of the three stages the prototype performs, the activated space is mechanized.

ELEVATION SEQUENCE OF OPERATION (left _ drawing) tagged and rendered at major instances of performance, the prototype restricts, and allows, levels of interaction with the architectural intervention

ISOMETRIC (top _ drawing)

Mechanized is not meant as simply placing mechanical devices in space, rather mechanization is spatialized. This mechanization directs and intervenes with the user's social 'norm', not just physically interacting within the landscape in-which the prototype exists. Landscape is mechanized through the spatialization of mechanic characteristics.

The prototype for spatial mechanization is an autonomous being within the social landscape it is constructed.

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Module Replacement [restroom]

cotton field[primary crop] original irrigation cotton field[primary crop] irrigation:restroom insert

cotton field[primary crop] original irrigation module

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parcel ID: R95051 owner : smith property value: 69.113.

cotton field[primary crop] irrigation:restroom insert F.132

parcel ID: R96132 owner : Smith, R + T property value: 94.114.

cotton field[primary crop] irrigation:restroom insert

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parcel ID: R94082 owner : smith + cooper property value: 72.034.

parcel ID: R94003 owner : Teller Bart. property value: 127.746.

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parcel ID: R96011 owner : Yale + Travis + Penn, TW property value: 152.031.

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parcel ID: R94021 owner : Rime, sver property value: 99.845.

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parcel ID: R94024 owner : Collier, W R property value: 127.746.

- cotton field notation -as seen from an airplane lubbock, texas

irrigation:restroom

Fall 2014 Professor Jeffrey Nesbit

The irrigation system on a cotton field consists of an ordered series of pipes distributing water and nutrients to the crop, the livelihood of the cotton farmer in Lubbock, Texas, and a major agricultural industry in West Texas. Irrigation:restroom illuminates the major role of the irrigation system in Lubbock's economy through the spatial activation of a module in the system.

COTTON - FIELD VALUE ANALYSIS (left _ drawing _ image) analyzing the relationship between crop + farmer + land values + and infrastructural proxomities expose the need for an architectural intervention of disruption

The insertion of a program, the restroom, manipulates the ordered pipes in-situ and generates a prototype for a new irrigation module. A module whose function is one of disruption instigating the agri-cultural 'norm' of west Texas, breaking the way for a new approach to urban development seeking to infiltrate the rural condition. Disruption is the only agency architectural intervention

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can hope to grasp with the need of restructuring the status quo quickly becoming important for the survival of contemporary society. Bernard Tschumi expresses the importance of disruption, the intervention required for architecture to have any real effect on any culture or society.1.

Without disruption there is no cultural, or societal, intervention.

AXONOMETRIC STUDY (left _ drawing) IRRIGATION:RESTROOM (top _ image)

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architecture in disjunction Bernard Tschumi

Restroom pods destroy the ordered notion suggested by the successful sequence of typical irrigation modules. A new trajectory is the result of the destruction of a single irrigation that instigates module, raising the ordered pipes and restructuring the morphological characteristics of the 'typical'.

Programmatic requirements, the restroom culture, multiplies aluminum pipes and manipulates the 'once linear' trajectory to accommodate the passer's-by and restroom-users.

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restroom[pod] anti-trajectory irrigation_machine cotton_field

Irrigation : Restroom is the architectural disruption of the agricultural status-quo sparking new modes of spatial activation, a kinetic experience restructuring the relationship between economy and industry. A paradox of an architectural intervention, destroying and restructuring the landscape in-situ.

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COMPOSITE STUDY (top _ drawing) systems of order are manipulated in response to the status quo defined by the agri-industry in Lubbock, Texas

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PERSPECTIVE (top _ image) irrigation:restroom , an architectural intervention, rendered in a cotton field, the agri-cultural industry of west texas

infrastructure(s) fiction

Fall 2016 Professor Bennett Neiman

Downtown Denver, Colorado is a casualty of conflicting infrastructural systems that force the reliance on natural boundaries to prevent flooding. Cherry Creek, an engineered stream, is a dedicated flood zone that defines the interruption between the downtown infrastructural grid and the auraria campus infrastructural grid, resulting in a divided city and an isolated Auraria campus.

URBAN ASSEMBLAGES (left _ images) Assebemlies of five orthogonal elements assemble in a, native, non-perfect landscape, the analog proccess.

Infrastructure(s) Fiction investigates the ability for architectural interventions to generate a new infrastructure of increased social interaction and production.

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fictional infrastructure(s)

URBAN ASSEMBLAGES (left _ image) expressing the fictional infrastructural discrepency in downtown Denver, Colorado, the ghosted model manipulation situates urban assemblages against their native fictions

COMBINATORY ASSEMBLAGES (top-right _ images) urban assemblages are combined and re-articulated into combinatory studies. the combinatory proccess illuminates the imperfections resulting from the nalog proccess.

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VOLUME SPAWNING ANALYSIS post-facto, the spawning of volumes from the combinatory assemblages is further studied to reveal agencies in line, mass, and planar elements

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fictional infrastructure(s)

'THE PHANTOM TRACE' COMBINATORY SYNTHESIS VOLUME MANIPULATION (left _ drawing) imperfections in the combinatory assemblage and the urban assemblies are mapped. with the understanding of the imperfect landsape, the imperfections in the volume and elemental combinatory models generate the 'phantom - trace'

'PHANTOM TRACE' MODEL ELEVATION (top + bottom _ model) the phantom trace is revealed

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COMPOSITE INFRASTRUCTURAL STUDY (left _ drawing _ model _ image) the auraria campus and downtown infrastructural grids are super-imposed to expose relationships between the urban landscape and the social interaction rendered as a result of the imperfections in city-planning

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volume [two]

spring 2016 Professor Joseph Aranha

VOL. [TWO] OFFICE BUILDING MAP (left _ drawing) office building typologies are studied in relation to levels of river-walk pedestrian accessibility and parking locations in downtown San Antonio, Texas

Situated in San Antonio,Texas, in a direct response to the need for an instigator of informal social activity, Vol. [two] provides social space to break the existing barrier between active and inactive zones along the controlled man-made riverwalk, a major tourist attraction.

Raised from the street level, two office volumes hover over social spaces located on the ground and river level while services, extruded along the shared party-wall, support both private capitol and social activity. Extruded from the office volumes, the urban fabric is folded in the vertical axis, providing a cafe and viewing balconies of the river walk.

Volume one and two are supported through different structural systems. Vol. 1 is raised off of the street level by a slanted steel column and girder system

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Vol. 2 stretches over pedestrian path trajectories closest to the river-walk, allowing for both directions of pedestrian travel on the river-walk to be pulled through the site. Differing structural systems defines primarily public and private points of access.

A catalyst for the activation of the new social space in San Antonio's urban fabric, surfaces articulate existing pedestrian paths.

This evolution of pedestrian paths generate new pedestrian trajectories through the agency discovered in folding perforated metal panels.

Social activity and private capitol are supported and

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interconnected through the urban fabric, instigating a new place of social commerce.

VOL. [TWO] WALL SECTION (left _ drawing) DETAILS (middle _ drawing) WALL SECTION MODEL (right _ model)

Studied through mapping, varying densities of office buildings exist within 144’ from the edge of the river walk. Aimed at defining a new office building performance in San Antonio, social needs are favored in the square footage of Vol. [two]. Allowing public vendors to sell art and cultural artifacts, the river level of Vol. [two] opens, in result of the evolution of pedestrian paths, towards the San Antonio river to instigate social activity. Projection of a public volume, extruded from office vol.1, emphasizes the need for the city of San Antonio to develop and redefine the office building vernacular. Vol. [two] aims to express the idea of private, and local, capitol interests becoming interconnected.

Stitching, not only the urban

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VOL. [TWO] ELEVATIONAL STUDY (left _ drawing) EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC (right _ drawing) skin systems in architecture are social devices in the landscape the exploded skin axonometric study demonstrates the process in which the device was generated

EXPLODED ISOMETRIC (top-right _ drawing)

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de _constructed realities (left _ water color _ drawings) a water color study exploring the spatial potential of perspectival references of materials and situations study _[06] was a finalist in the Hunting Art Prize in Houston, Texas in the Spring of 2016

insurgent identification

spring 2016 Professor Mari Michael Glassell

Sparked by the urban social and class divisions are demonstrations of identities instigating social friction and engaging with opposing institutions. Formal urban situations control the voice of opposing identities, an urban space whose function is to facilitate opposing engagements employed by powerful institutions. In contrast, informal urban spaces provide individual identities full control of the situation, resulting in insurgent demonstrations that disrupt the status quo.

What if urbanization was instigated by an insurgent system whose motive is constructed of oppositional forces, growing an insurgent form from within the urban landscape? A system surviving on the differences in the urban.

THE IN-VITRO LANDSCAPE (left _ map _ drawing)

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[in]-vitro formulation Insurgent Identification’s form is generated via a system of morphogenesis whose creation was one drawn from the definition of morphogenesis; “relating to the form or structure of things”1

EXTRACTION OF SUBJECTS WITHIN THE LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPE OF IDENTITIES (left_drawing) SUBJECT 02 (bottom _ drawing) SUBJECT 03 (middle _ drawing) SUBJECT 05 (top _ drawing)

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Essential to the process of generating form, the elemental role of morphogenesis, is the interaction between structural identities; underlying structural elements in morphogenesis whose interaction between each other reveals opposition or cooperation in the in-vitro landscape studies. Structural identities are not predetermined at the initial scale of the viewer, a scale defined by standing and looking at the simulant on the wall, rather the structures are further refined; elements are further identified as

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the outgoes in-vitro formulation.

POTENTIAL MUTATIONS SUBJECT 01 (left _ image) SUBJECT 02 - 05 (top _ images) subjects superimposed via scanning device, an experimental mutation forcing opposing identities within the landscape to interact

Important to the clustering of these identities is the genetic makeup of micro-fields. Micro-fields consist of three types of micro-elements; fields of growth, fields of edges, and fields of force. Patterns in the recorded quantities of these micro-elements identify specific characteristics of the realization of form. The growth field of micro-elements exists in-between the scaffolding and the larger field of identity networks. Elements of this type are only generated as the scaffolding breaks in reaction to the force exerted by the clustering of compatible identities at the larger scale of the system. Formed at the edge of the resulting growth field is a field of edges, approximating the repairing of the scaffolding tear and growth. Along this edge field lives a force field acting as a field of varying densities whose

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genesis is the value of tensional forces existing in the tear zone.

PHASE 01 _ tension models (left _ image) tensional qualities in wire distribute amongst communication networks

PHASE 02 _ identities forming (middle _ image) wire mesh constructs identities in a direct response to communication networks formed in PHASE 01

PHASE 03 _ identification threshold (right _ image)

identities interact and morph new identities

PHASE 04 _ exposure of identities PHASE 03 is plastered to render identity compatibility, exposition the heterogeneity in the urban landscape

Communication networks carry compatibility instructions between structural identities. Microfields diectly influence the quality of communication in response to the formulating landscape. The reciprocal relationship between the communication network and the micro-fields realize forms ranging from high to low resolutions - the primary yield of the formulating landscape. Levels of resolution are generated through the forces of attraction between various densities of structuralidentities.

Depending on the structural type there are detraction and attraction forces further defining clusters of compatible structures through the integration of compatible identities and isolation of the incompatible.

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Tensional qualities in the communication network forces the scaffolding mesh to break directly responding to a specified threshold (distance between elements).

Patterns of scaffold morphing can be anticipated through the analysis of the generated micro-fields. This a new found identifier of the specific characteristics that realize form.

Not all potential forms survive.

A casualty rate of 83% of microelements exists in the landscape. As a result of the high-casualty rate of micro-elements the form generated in the landscape is only realized through its continued simulation.

MIXED MEDIA TECHNICAL ANALYSIS (in-vitro identification) As a means to gain control of invitro formulation physical model and digital scripting is combined, illiciting more meaning in the system

In an attempt to realize the resultant forms function, agencies - defined as “subject 1-5� in the diagram (see extractions from within the landscape, page ) are extracted and then exhausted through their individual operations

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2014

002315AR04.01.2017

Thousands protest Temer's policies in Rio de Janeiro.

408909403.26.2017 Thousands protest economic reforms in Brazil.

00512702.07.2014 protest against a 10 cent hike in public transportation

408803003.26.2017 Brazilians protest corruption in Rio.

fares expected to take effect on 8 February.

92607401.10.2014

07234002.20.2017

Shantytown residents refuse to make way for World Cup station.

Violent breakout of locals against impeachment

2016

406752711.22.2016 Workers protest Brazil's austerity plans.

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405024711.12.2016 protest against a 10 cent hike in public transportation fares expected to take effect on 8 February.

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Protesters clash with police in Rio.

406109210.17.2016

Brazilians protest against spending cuts.

405418309.07.2016

Brazilians protest against new president

90230407.26.2013

06245709.05.2016

Hundreds protest against government spending and corruption.

Hundreds in Brazil Protest New President.

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Thousands demonstrate against Temer.

01673008.29.2016 Brazil-Rousseff Supporters/Protest 404846907.31.2016

Mass rally in support of Rousseff in Brazil.

505468907.06.2016 Demonstrators blame Olympics for education funding drain

05604205.22.2016

Brazilians Protest Acting President Temer.

403525705.11.2016 Rousseff supporters protest impeachment vote.

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2012 401157211.11.2015

Taxi drivers protest Uber in Rio de Janeiro.

400145508.24.2015 Corruption protest outside oil giant Petrobras.

207026507.24.2015 Taxi drivers protest for govt regulation of Uber.

205082803.15.2015 Protest after men die in clash with Rio police.

86852511.26.2012 Row over new oil royalties law could threaten Rio

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World Cup and Games.

Unions and backers of Brazil's president [Rousseff] marched to show support for the state-run oil company Petrobras.

204254101.16.2015 Protests over hike in bus fares.

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Protests across the country at moves to raise the cost of public transport.

to mutate and expose potentials in the form being generated.

This is the mutation in vitro.

SOCIAL CLASS + PROTEST MAP (left) political protests from 2012 - 2017 are mapped in relation to social class territories and population densities

INDEX OF PROTESTS in Rio de Janeiro (above) protests are categorized by year and socio-political catalysts protest spatial occupation is traced and isolated from vernacular urban elements

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Actors of urbanization in Rio de Janeiro are understood through the lens of urban demonstrations.

Michel Foucault’s 'dispositif ' defines this lens as a “system of relations” between elements constructed by heterogeneous characteristics of the urban; institutions, social class, demonstration infrastructure, and population density exposing forms of “power in the social field of interaction” 2. The dispositif of political demonstrations reveal the connection between heterogeneous elements, ensembles of identities whose connection exposes urban inequality - stripping instances of formal institutions and generating insurgent forms from within the landscape.

Insurgent forms morph

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from memory - and anticipation.

Similarly, political demonstrations occur in a cyclical nature with memory of previous gatherings whose social forces are embedded in the urban landscape containing potential trajectories of opposing identities. Memory exists in the spatial occupation of historical demonstrations, catalogued as informal and formal urban spaces.

COMMUNICATION NETWORK SIMULATION 01 - 04 [2012 - 2021] (left - right_map) communication networks between identities are mapped and simulated to expose the heterogeneity within the urban landscape

SCRIPTED PROTEST CATALYST (below _ script) historic protests, and calculated future protests, inserted in the script generating forces within the urban landscape

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Spaces in the city are defined by proximal properties of institutional existence influenced by memories of social unrest and “social distances� existing between various classes and physical institutional existence3.

With the added pressure from the 2016 summer olympics the federal government employed devices of pacification to eliminate heterogeneity in the urban, fragments of low income neighborhoods such

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SIMULATION isolation 01 + 04 + 05 [2012 + 2021] social scaffolding, communication network, and map references are isolated to expose the evolving communication networks between compatible and incompatible identities

CORE SAMPLE 01 + 04 + 05 (left to right)

as Mangueira were forced from their living conditions in 2014. Clearing space for devices of pacification, lower class identities were exposed through the collective nature of the demonstrations, as these were in close proximity to their origin of each individuals existence. Acting at an intersection of Rio’s infrastructural artery and the communities primary access point - a collective demonstration in an informal sector of the urban landscape revealed opposing identities in the city.

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CORE SAMPLE SIMULATION elevation studies expose the interaction between social class and population densities highlighted elevations demonstrate the social class' interaction

CORE SAMPLE 01 2012 - 2021 (top-bottom) CORE SAMPLE 04 2012 - 2021 (top-bottom) CORE SAMPLE 05 2012 - 2021 (top-bottom)

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education

( year )

Lubbock, Tx (2013 - 2017) Austin, Tx (2009 - 2013)

Texas Tech University Cedar Park High School

b.s. architecture ‘15 deans list 2012 Fooball Texas State Champions, Elected Team Captain

experience designer/editor of [MAXX]17 the first volume in an on-goingstudio publication researching the systemization Professor Mari Michael Glassell of urbanization

Lubbock, Tx (2017)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Lubbock, Tx (2017)

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

essay + test grading and assisting students who have questions regarding the Architectural History II course content

Texas Fenestrations(inc.)

review plans and specifications, estimating cost/design of curtain wall and window wall applications from EFCO and other glazing manufacturers

Dr. Clifton Ellis

Ausitin, Tx (2016 - 2017)

Los Angeles, Ca (2012)

Doris Kim Sung

Austin, Tx (2014)

Tyler’s (retail)

Houston, Tx (2010)

Lippke, Cartwright, and Roberts

one-week apprenticeship researching kinetic bi-metal material employee of the month (June + July) three-week apprenticeship correcting red-lined civil drawings

civil engineering firm

achievements Marfa, Tx (2017)

2017 ACSA // Crossings between the Proximate and the Remote

Lubbock, Tx (2016)

Deans Cup [buildAID] Competition2nd Place

Houston, Tx (2015)

The Hunting Art Prize(Finalist)

Lubbock, Tx (2014)

‘Crop04’ Student Work Publication

Austin, Tx (2011)

UIL restaurant design competition(2nd place)

six drawings exhibited at ACSA’s regional conference in Marfa, Tx

48-hr TTU CoA competiton in collaboration with Lawson Spencer + Dianze Wu de _constructed realities water-color series exhibited as a finalist in the art competition TTU CoA annual student work publication, featuring irrigation:restroom as a full project execited full design + concept

resume

geoffrey ford

Rhinoceros Form-Z v-ray grasshopper adobe InDesign, illustrator, photoshop adobe Premeire + AfterEffects microsoft suite autodesk Revit + CAD 3D printing, vacuum forming, CNC milling

(512).423.7611 geoffrey.b.ford@gmail.com geoffreybford

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downtown San Antonio, Texas

VOL. [TWO] PLAN (top - left _ drawings) SECTIONS (bottom _ drawings) PERSPECTIVE (right _ drawing) VOL. [TWO] WALL SECTION (left _ drawing) DETAILS (middle _ drawing) WALL SECTION MODEL (right _ model) VOL. [TWO] ELEVATIONAL STUDY (left _ drawing) EXPLODED ISOMETRIC (right _ drawing) (5).

de _constructed realities (left _ water color _ drawings) a water color study exploring the spatial potential of perspectival references of materials and situations study _[06] was a finalist in the Hunting Art Prize in Houston, Texas in the Spring of 2016

(6).

THE IN-VITRO LANDSCAPE (left _ map _ drawing) EXTRACTION OF SUBJECTS WITHIN THE LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPE OF IDENTITIES (left_drawing) SUBJECT 02 (bottom _ drawing) SUBJECT 03 (middle _ drawing) SUBJECT 05 (top _ drawing) POTENTIAL MUTATIONS SUBJECT 01 (left _ image) SUBJECT 02 - 05 (top _ images) subjects superimposed via scanning device, an

experimental mutation forcing opposing identities within the landscape to interact

PHASE 01 _ tension models (left _ image) tensional qualities in wire distribute amongst communication networks

PHASE 02 _ identities forming (middle _ image) wire mesh constructs identities in a direct response to communication networks formed in PHASE 01

PHASE 03 _ identification threshold (right _ image) identities interact and morph new identities

PHASE 04 _ exposure of identities PHASE 03 is plastered to render identity compatibility, exposition the heterogeneity in the urban landscape

SOCIAL CLASS + PROTEST MAP (left) political protests from 2012 2017 are mapped in relation to social class territories and population densities

INDEX OF PROTESTS in Rio de Janeiro (above) protests are categorized by year and socio-political catalysts protest spatial occupation is traced and isolated from vernacular urban elements

MIXED MEDIA TECHNICAL ANALYSIS (in-vitro identification) As a means to gain control of in-vitro formulation physical model and digital scripting is combined, illiciting more meaning in the system