Thesis Research Vol. 1
max dehne
Thesis Research Vol. 1
max dehne
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Office Mundane takes the mobile office and condenses it into a collection of essential tools
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Casting the Everyday frames and places a new orientation to the everyday objects through framing and casting.
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Magnificent Mundane brings the utility of making coffee into a format that presents it as something outside of its own practical bounds.
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Trash or Trash attempts to rearrange the normative into a new configuration.
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Part 1a Office Mundane Using the need for access to a small collection of tools that are instrumental to my daily life I created container that could economically keep them together and safe while in transit. This box includes the basic tools to create a mobile office.
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Part 1b Casting the Everyday Through the exploration of everyday objects by the creation of frames, models, and eventual casting of the embedded object I hope to discover new meanings for what we determine to be mundane.
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Abstract It’s eight o’clock. The sound of church bells chime from my phone. I find the screen; slide my finger across the glass and its gone. I’m awake. A room, a station, a home, a place, a city, a country, come into focus. I find my Levis, find my Vans. Black on black. The wood floors of my apartment are old. Tattered cracked polyurethane bubbled in the corners is scratched from un-shoed chairs pulled across the surface. Just beyond my door, an awning is pulled against City Flower’s tucked under my apartment. The Mr. Sister sign swings slowly to a dull morning breeze and the street moves with the breakfast hungry public. A block down the street, Brickway’s doors are overflowing to the street and the Coffee Exchange deck carries a crowd into caffeinated bliss.
Like a narrative architecture has both the capabilities of fulfilling the mundane or provoking magnificence in our daily routine. It is the context by which the world around us is constructed in a slow procession. Fragments of the city contain in them the latent potential to transfigure our identity over time. The walk home, favorite café, or park to eat lunch carries importance that extends beyond simple pleasure. These places of the mundane are constructs of place and through our experience we develop a language for the world we exist within. In this regard, architecture has the opportunity and the responsibility to consider this interaction and objectively seek to inspire empathy. breathe new life into that which we contextualize through the experience of aesthetic routine Insertions of a new empathetic reality will both expose and augment the mundane. Mundane is defined as both banal and the earthly world around us. It includes those things that pertain to our hands. As such, gravity and the forces of nature that hold architectural construction at bay are mundane. Through the exposure and augmentation of the mundane I hope to develop an empathetic architectural understanding that can be used to develop an aesthetic understanding of form, function, and structure. 14
Part 1c Magnificence Mundane Drawing from my impulsive intuition of aesthetic research and personal philosophies towards architecture I developed the abstract above and the following degree project board. The degree project board is one part advisor finding and two part thesis prep as we are asked to materialize our concepts.
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COFFEE
BREWING
WATER
CONSUME
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Part 1d Trash or Trash? The simple rearrangement of typical objects puts them in tension with each other and the normative context they exists within. This project attempted to create a simple guerilla act with this conversation.
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