JERETH SENESE
WORK
There was a collision of two pristine masses, tall and strong, but together their imperfect was made. The Broken House is a formal response to a strenuous relationship between father and son. It’s decaying nature resting precariously over the water, prepared to crumble at any time suggests the fragility of the structure, and the state of the occupants inside. The home now has fostered a father and son relationship in its inverse role, acting not to sober and comfort its occupants into a closer bond, but to immerse them in the activities that drive them apart, and reinforce their daytime duality and awkwardness. The house has taken the stance not as a healing component, but as an exasperater of the vice, of the things that drive occupants apart.
BROKEN HOUSE
BOATHOUSE
KODACHROME LIBRARY
GRAND AVE.DORMITORY
The friction between the familiar and unfamiliar. A misalignment between what is expected and what is experienced. Recognizable form and edges establish the boundaries of the familiar; initial characteristics such as hard edges, rectilinearity, and alignment must take on and negotiate more alien behaviors. The negation of their inherent qualities breeds a condition of strangeness. This interjection is conceived as a place for the traveler, a place in the hills on the fringe of Los Angeles, removed from the absoluteness of the city. Here a feedback loop is initiated, where the recognizable formal primitive is reorganized, and re-translated through a series of analogue and digital transformations. Critical are the techniques of carving and tearing as means of shaping form and space. Solid masses are carved into intricate chunks which nest together, allowing for reveals and overlaps in material. Through these methods, interior space and exterior form develop a contrasting relationship with one another. Space is shaped and removed from the chunks, sometimes bridging across multiple pieces. Like in the baroque plan, interior becomes dislodged from exterior form through the manipulation of poche. Aperture is created when interior exceeds and tears through exterior bounds. The simultaneity of the familiar and unfamiliar calls into question reality in a way that can activate form, space, and material articulation, revealing an architecture that emerges between the known and unknown.
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JERETH SENESE