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STEPHANIE ANN GUSSMAN
THE BIRTH OF PERCEPTION -
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DEDICATION TO ESMERALDA SANCHEZ TO STEPHEN BIXER GUSSMAN TO MY FAMILY, THIS ONE IS FOR YOU.
3 THREE YEARS PASS BY, TIME FLIES WITH PRIDE. BROKEN DOWN, CARRY ON, NO ONE SAW YOU CRIED. ONCE WAS STRONG, NOW YOU’RE FRIED, AWAKE ALL NIGHT LONG. THREE YEARS PASS BY. MY FEELINGS FAIL TO SUBSIDE. HURRY UP, COME BACK. I’LL MEET YOU BY SEASIDE.
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ABSTRACT INTRO PHASE I CASE STUDY: ARCH PHASE II PHASE III TEST STUDY PHASE IV CASE STUDY: DRAWING METHOD CASE STUDY: CASA POLI PHASE V OPPERATION I OPPERATION II OPPERATION III OPPERATION IV CONCLUSION
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO MY PROFESSOR ERIC R.P. FARR WHO TRUSTED THE PROCESS ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US AND FOR WHOM I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO THIS WITHOUT.
A SPECIAL THANKS TO TATIANA BERGER FOR HER GUIDANCE THROUGHOUT THIS ENDEVOUR. THANK YOU TO BLAS HERRERA FOR MAKING THINGS MORE CLEAR AND CONFUSING, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. THANK YOU TO DONALD KLUMKER FOR ALWAYS BEING WILLING TO EXPLORE. THANKS TO MY EMPLOYER BAKERNOWICKI DESIGN STUDIO FOR THE FLIEXIBILTY AND CONSTANT FEEDBACK DURING THIS PROCESS.
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LASTLY,A THANK YOU TO MY MENTOR MITRA KANAANI,WHO GUIDED ME THROUGH MY PROFESSIONAL PATH EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. EXPLICIT BOX
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When thinking about the threshold, this investigation reconsiders form and composition of an opening as a single element through the lens of a seam. There is an
between context and rethinks
the
seam
process which created the stitch.
ab str act
disabling the stitching procedure to explore conceivable openings. Iterations are partnered in association with the seam and are tested against its own maximum expansion. An examination of ALGORITHMIC impacts seek and determine how the poetic image is
Architecture is balanced against a multitude of the phenomena of material space, detail, etc. With this philosophical kinds
of
landscapes,
concentrates the poetic imagination and requires
epilogue
method
Investigation
in the cross-section of a threshold
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in time to attain the level of individual consciousness where time ceases to quicken space and considers the onset of an image. 15
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The diminishment of architecture’s “ego,” what a r c h i t e c t u r e
repair, an alertness to rise to the present is needed to animate meaning to design separated spaces with punctures to walls
feature. Some aspects are not visible until one observes human behavior. For example, according to Edward T. Hall in The Hidden Dimension, although the separate dining room is fast vanishing from American houses, the line separating the dining area from the rest of the living room is quite real. which
separates
one
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in suburbia is also
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the American culture or at least some of its subcultures (106, Hall).
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CONCEPTUALIZATION
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Rather than accept threshold boundaries as constraints, can architecture think of such edges as places of exploration?
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Kenneth Frampton carries toward a critical regionalism barian. His liberative environment practice is expressed in ten points
means other than the shock and conquest and domination. It then becomes inevitable
and anticipate the human
consequences of such massive decentering large sector of the population. His manifesto is speculative and is not
the project or intent at hand. Frampton expresses a nature preconditioned for global utopias versus Paul Ricoeur’s approach and argument in which architecture is a universal character and is built and manifested through the means of man’s thought and can be used as a machine tool
ambiguous double meaning of current dogma. Ricoeur’s colonial powers and the struggles for liberation
it in its past in order to nurture national revindication (47).” This approach resonates with this investigation in which a spatial mass customisation becomes an aspect as
While Frampton believes it is aesthetic representation and stick to what is regional, to the location’s context, Paul expresses as cultures
of the past with those of approach leans more with Paul’s perspective, the seam can bridge both ideologies
culture, it is then when architecture will meet place.
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IF THIS, THEN THAT...
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SINGLE SEAM
DOUBLE SEAM
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the value and meaning of architectural environments
including
cultural
overemphasis
on
the
promise
“doomed” perspective was a mirror of our present in the loss of meaning and participation to represent are the “fashionable attempts to recreate a sense of
manipulation of motifs on the surface level” this
of images memories and dreams”(140). This is how the seam can perform to connect the past and future.
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SEWING DIRECTIONS FOR THE CLOAKING OF A HUMAN.THIS EXAMPLE OF MASS PRODUCTION PATTERNS CAN ALSO BE SEEN EXEMPLIFIED IN ARCHITECTURE.
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EVOLUTION OF HUMAN ARCH.
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If architecture can create an inner space which activates a slow creep of consciousness, a slowness, it will begin to derive special qualities from the invisible presence. EXPLICIT BOX
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PHASE II
CONDITION A
CONDITION B
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CONDITION C
CONDITION D
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CONDITION A
CLASSIFY
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CONDITION B
CONDITION D
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DISCONNECTION
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architectural projects of our
and what I translate this
sense which has an affect. It is sometimes the unseen that encourages the activation of multiple senses.“All the senses including vision, are extensions of the sense of touch: the senses are
whole has lost its state of consciousness. Although Pallasmaa is correct, in
Pallasmaa writes.
arrogant, and our age seems to have lost the virtue of
“architectural culture would do well to nurture productive tensions between cultural realism and artistic idealism, determination and discretion, ambition and is one that has been tainted established once again into the roots of education, but highlighted as successful methods of spatial qualities, of methods integrated with multi-sensorial design stimulating designs for the
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This point
on a singular object, the door, its metaphor implies
but depending on the method of design, it also implies a direction of space, a stopping point, a corner, or an end. Basic elements too can provide stimuli and associations as Frampton describes, not all stimuli be an animated experience. These strategies must be applied to various contexts of representation in architecture in order for a
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LAP SEAM
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FLAT SEAM
EDGE SEAM
BOUND SEAM
DECORATIVE SEAM
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did for bridges, coliseums, and the foundation of all aspect for western architecture.
OPERATIONALLY, through the lens of the seam, a collaboration of stitch patterns are manipulated into PLANAR STRUCTURES. The structures begin to establish modes of transition.
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CUSTIMIZATION VS. MASS PRODUCTION: TO DIVE FULLY INTO THE CONCEPT BURLAP TEXTILE IS USED TO STITCH TOGETHER PLANAR FOLDS USING BOTH HAND TECHNIQUES AND AN INDUSTRIAL SEWING MACHINE. EXPLICIT BOX
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CUSTIMIZATION VS. MASS PRODUCTION: THE SAME TECHNIQUE IS THEN USED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SOFTWARE RHINO TO TEST THE OPERATION DIGITALLY AS THE INUDSTIRAL SEWING MACHINE DID WITH THE BURLAP. 44
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PROTOTYPE OF PRODUCTION
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PLANES
STRUCTURE
OPENING LARGE FLAPS
VOLUME
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Variety of Applicability In order for the seam to contribute to the space it must be able to serve as a transitional, transmissional, or transformational member or membrane. “The search for a more androgynous modernity produces an ongoing series of constructs, objects, and propositions� (So-IL, 7). Just as the arch evolves through a tunnel, arcade, door, or corridor, once autopsied, the seam reveals itself via the lens of a line or boundary through the means of elements in architecture.
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and domestic objects can be stored inside the perimeter, freeing up the space for multiple activities.
kitchen, the vertical circulations, the bathrooms, the closets and a series of interior balconies that
ACCORDING TO PEZO VON ELRICHAUSEN : The building functions both as a summer house and a cultural center.
CASA POLI ARCHITECTS: PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN
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HOW WE MIGHT RECONSTITUTE CORE CONTINGENCIES? RATHER THAN ACCEPTING THESE BOUNDARIES AS CONSTRAINTS CAN WE THINK OF SUCH EDGES As
EXPLORATION?
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OPERATION I Transition perhaps the most neutral can function, for the sake of this example, as a guide from one box to another box representing an operative of the seam. According to the text Elements of Architecture, from neolithic times evolved into the meeting ground of demonstration and landmarks, threshing
B E N D I N G
can be a place of inclusion, but also an exclusive religious or political domain, is a sophisticated element in architecture that hosts provocative frames of development, one being the method of transition from one space to another, and a binding surface element (Mohensen, 10).
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Transmission - The door, a transformation of is a separate element of the structure itself which becomes the seam. The door or seam can be
P L A N A R
openness,freedom, and 545). The door, in this case, the seam, is a spatial development conjured within a user awareness and an experience which transmits the user to an unfamiliar and a curious experience.
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OPERATION III Transformation - The window represents transformation in the most surrealist methods, “offering uninterrupted views of the world, but no
the window transforms spatial articulation in a
T W I S T I N G
a hole punctured in a wall in order to select a particular view, and even as an anthropomorphic
the window as a uniform screen wrapped around a building, liberated from its classical western
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OPERATION IV ARCHETYPAL EXPERIENCES IN ARCHITECTURE -
This is the basis for the evolution of all openings. But, in its pure form, the post-and-
aggregate of experiences
colonnades and in framed structures, since the posts of doors, windows, ceilings, and roofs are part of the wall. The job of the lintel is to bear the loads that rest on it (and its own load) without deforming or breaking.
overlapping perspectives changing, light, sounds, and smells.
D I S P L A C E M E N T
work of architecture
in graphic or model form but as a series of partial views and The simplest illustration of load and support in construction is the post-and-lintel upright members (posts, columns, piers) hold up a third member (lintel, beam, girder, rafter) their top surfaces.
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opposite page: SCRIPTED SEAM MODEL REPRESENTING THE INFINITE CROSS-SECTIONS STITCHING.
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AN INTROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS TO SEE HOW CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS RELATE AND ALLOW FOR NO DEFINITE END ACTIVATING AN EMERGENCE OF ITS OWN INTELLIGENCE.
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THIS INVESTIGATION PREMATURELY ELIMINATES THE POSSIBILITIES WHICH APPEAR TO BE IMPOSSIBLE BUT ARE NOT NECESSARILY SO.
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“CONTRARY TO TRADITIONAL STAGE ACTING, A HAPPENING IS A NON-MATRIX TYPE OF PERFORMANCE, UNFOLDING AS A SIMPLE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS, UNBOUNDED BY A UNITY OF TIME, PLACE, OR NARRATION”(ANGELIL,550).
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Ultimately, the primary goal is to interact with space with unfamiliar disruptions to manage a continuum of small and large spaces. Openings should not be taken for granted rather strategically conceived to enable the transcendence
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This procedural theory re-reads the threshold through the lens of a seam to reconsider compositions of openings.
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The data, although not intended to find rationalization in all aspects of the exploration, did reveal a post-plurality. These ideas are seen in the work of Jorn Utzon, “cultivating a self conscious resistance� (from writer Morris Berman). The commentary is through detachment and beyond
vision but rather a direct experience. While the geometry of architecture is meant to be configured at its maximal elasticity, the seam is necessary to structure the transition, transmission, and transformative elements from one spatial context to the next while simultaneously evoking its own narrative.
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When creating innerspace representative of an idea greater than the quantities of the past, but rather a space which invites the consciousness of the present, then architecture can demand for a new exchange via transitional spaces examined with alternative approaches. One can know a thousand facts
“be� one must experience and access in the vertical
This is the phenomenon that architecture contributes to cultural tectonics.
Architecture that is afraid to let go of traditional ideals suggests it is afraid to confront what it is it cannot imagine. What is the next step in the
Architecture should invite spaces in touch with the present moment, when the ego is no longer operating, meaning architecture is meant to make aware the present moment, when tradition or past are no longer operating.
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