Lucas Gillie: Selected Works 19 - 24

EMBRASURE DIALECTIC

TOKYO

HIGH FASHION STORE + CHILDCARE FOR RETAIL WORKERS 2023, CRITIC -

MICHAEL SZIVOS

The impulse to contradict an assertion always renders unknown objects (outof-sight) more desirable than known objects (in-sight), the embrasure materially mediates this relationship.

The project houses two physically separate programs, a high fashion store and a children’s playscape. Mediated by the use of oblique and elliptical readings of conic intersections in tectonic and stereotomic forms, readings of space beyond start to flatten substantive objects into representative images.

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PULP!

ATLANTA // PLANE OF IMMANENCE MEDIA MACHINE + IMAGES

LUCAS GILLIE & OWEN CARAWAY

2021 - 23, CRITIC - THOMAS FORGET

Reality’s relationship with representation, or spectacle, is becoming increasingly complex through augmenting technologies. In Pulp!’s hubris, the two fold atop each other.

Pulp! is a new book of a lost holy scripture. It is a fanciful text of a media apparatus binding digitization with physicality to the point of absolute integration. Equally an idyllic playground and an idiotic hellscape. It is a multiplane of stark losslessness joined at the hip with profound desolation. PULP! is awful, incredible, immanent.

https://www.pidgin.press/breadcrumbs/pulp

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Conceived by and their “Circuit On

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...The Slab.

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and for the renegades of media, A Hill” was built for production.

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Pulp! found a paradox in the non-relevance physical space while maintaining

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non-relevance of maintaining a necessity for it.

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When set on this course, a logistical

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logistical nightmare became lucid...

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The walls and floors once described from confident regularity and

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described as “delineating” fell away and towards anxious possibility.

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POOLS AT PORTA MAGGIORE

ROME POOLS, LINEAR PARK 2022, CRITIC - JEFFREY BALMER

An array of marble blocks placed along a narrow stretch of undeveloped land along the Aurelian Wall, the project connects two active park zones with a linear park, community center and thermae.

The Aurelian Wall, a historic separating plane, lies in ruin. Raw Marble Blocks, a monolithic mass, presents an architecture that is yet to be. The tension between postfunction urban artifact and material before form is the occupation of an architecture where antiquity and potential converge.

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Stitched Panorama: Marble Quarry, Carrara, Italy

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BUILDING PROJECT 24

NEW HAVEN

PROPOSAL - TWO FAMILY HOUSE

LUCAS GILLIE, KRISTA LEBOVITZ, HIMA GOBBURU, AYSEL AZIZ 2024, CRITIC - EEVA-LIISA PELKONEN, ADAM HOPFNER

The need for a two-unit residence is articulated by a shift of three distinct programmatic volumes, emerging two separate residences with generous covered outdoor spaces, and buffered by thick functional utility walls.

The utility walls provide a nook to eat breakfast, a place to sit and tie one’s shoe, and a mechanism where utilities are tucked away. These functional walls become two spines that subdivide the home into three zones and give each family the tools they need to not merely jump from chore to chore, but also sit, rest, solve a crossword puzzle, or read a book.

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CHARLOTTE ATHLETIC CLUB

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METRO ATHLETIC CLUB

LUCAS GILLIE & BEN SIMMONS 2020, CRITIC - PETER WONG

The influence of site plays a key role in architectural conception, but what if existing conditions are taken far too literally?

Charlotte Metro Athletic Club’s tectonics are formed through programmatic, structural, and contextual contingencies that have been assigned gravitational values, then acting upon a substrate. Resulting in an artificial landscape of blanket, ribbon, and curtain-like formal behaviors, nesting athletic activities softly within.

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CARDBOARD CONFESSIONAL

STORRS HALL CARDBOARD BOX

SOLO WINNING PROPOSAL

FABRICATED WITH: ALYSSA BRADY, CRISTIAN CORTES, BRAYDON PRICE, ERIN KENNEDY 2019, CRITIC - JOSIE HOLDEN-BULLA

Cardboard Confessional is a box installation made of, and completely held together by cardboard.

The occupant seeks out various tapering apertures along a narrow path, some regulating, others freeing. Apertures direct focus towards specificity within the Storrs Salon, though they are not specifically placed themselves.