Thing inside a thing

Knowlton school of architecture

Spring 2019

Instructor: Sandhya Kochar, Erik Herrmann

In this project the goal is to place one thing inside Thing another thing. This will generate an immediate reciprocity between the toy and container. Once nested, the toy and container will become codependent and ontologically entangled. Rather than focus on the design of autonomous things this project will require considering the evolving ontological relationship between two things. The presented design consists of a series of boxes that are wrapped by a surface, the boxes being the toy and the surface being the container. The toy is to be occupied and nested inside a larger container. Consequently, the project has at least two layers of envelope and levels of interiority.

A series of rules are set to determine how the surface is wrapped around each box based on three conditions of Adjacency, Tangency and Intersection.

The occupied space is now considered as both the space inside the toy and the interstitial space between the toy and the surface.

Color is used to differentiate between the toy and the wrapper. The yellow represents the wrapper, the pink represents the toy and the green represents the occupied space within the toy.