Synergy

University of Pennsylvania 2021 Visual Studies III | Plan Hybrids Critic: Miroslava Brooks

To produce this hybrid-plan a combination of three drawings were needed in other to achieve the final composition. The drawings used were Paul Rudloph's Crawford Manor, Overview Lake Tandou in Australia and the current studio housing plan. Different techniques came into place when merging these drawings together, which included copying, duplicating, scaling, rotating, and reconfiguring them in such a way that the connections between the individual fragments are seamless. This exercise asked to reconcile the seemingly incomprehensible scalar differences between the building and the landscape through a speculative narrative.

"New York City’s most wanted artificial disaster artist has been found and arrested in what was thought to be a janitor’s closet inconspicuously tucked into a corner of LoLux Common’s new building. Wanted for crimes of artificially constructing numerous catastrophes, the artist’s laboratory that turned out to be embedded deep within the earth’s bedrock has been providing the perfect hideaway until recently being discovered by authorities. While inspecting the lab for criminal evidence, authorities stumbled upon a mysterious message relaying the disaster artist’s most recent plot they could not decipher. After receiving the message back from decoding experts, they were met with bad news: the disaster artist’s plot is already in progress." Housing Plan | Lolux Common Studio