Misreading Geometry

from NimaShoaie_Portfolio_2022

Part 2: Slide

Workshop, CAAI School Of Architecture Student: Nima Shoaie Tutor: Pooyan Ruhi TAs: Mohammad Alavi, Sadra Sharifi, Negar Dolati Date: December, 2019

The works produced here are the result of an intense design-research workshop. Any design-research endeavor focuses on specific design problems-in this case architectural problems-and tries to investigate those problems. Not so much for reaching a solution, but more as to investigate the possibilities for that specific problem. In doing so two different yet related territories were explored; the conceptual and the technical. The projects which are presented here are the result of a dialogue with some disciplinary issues such as sectional object and figure/ground relationship (conceptual realm).

The works presented here are proposals for the past, the now, and the future. An architecture that might have been, could be, and might be. An architecture which is the result of experimentation, speculation, and critical thinking. We are suggesting that the world could be other than it is.

As Pooyan himself said: "We believe in ideas. We believe that if something is not experimental, it is not worth doing. We believe that architecture is not an ideology. It is not just about feelings. it is not a populist idea, and more importantly it cannot save the world. We believe in architecture for the sake of architecture, architecture as a form of knowledge, as a cultural product."

The point of departure for this exercise was Persian carpets: They were used as inventories of abstract 2D geometries which were extracted and turned into 3D massess using different techniques such as stacking, scaling and rotation. The masses were then sliced in a sequential manner in order to produce geometrics which are detached from their original and raw status. Next step is working on the interiority and the tectonic of the envelope and destabalizing the conventional generic reading of these elements.