PROTEUS: THE MIGRATING NEO-NOMADIC MEMORIAL WHERE MEMORIAL IS DEFINED AS A PLACE OF REMEMBERANCE FOR THE HYBRIDIZED NEO-NOMADS AND THEIR STRUGGLE TO CULTURALLY ADAPT TO A PHYSICAL LOCATION.
HYBRIDIZED NEO-NOMAD : someone belonging to two or more cultures but does not feel like they truly fit in any and, as a result, retreat inwards mentally to make up for the identity gap that they have developed; additionally, they will try to change their characteristics and/or personalities in such a way that they can better to adapt to the place that they are in and to fit in. La Carta: A Memory from the FIrst Hybridized Neo-nomad
The Models: 3D Representations of La Carta and The Map
The Map: A Graphic Representation of La Carta
Journey: Overlay Result of Several Spatial Prototypes of How To Experience Virtual or Imaginary Space
Within Proteus: Interacting With The Walls
Proteus is a migrating, neo-nomadic memory tool. It migrates at one hundred percent capacity, but likes to shed seventy-five percent of its adopted traits and retain twenty-five percent in order to reshift itself within new environments. Proteus does not remember where it came from, so its caretakers take it around the world to try and help it remember. They ask neo-nomads to share their memories with Proteus on a piece of fabric that they can attach to its colorful walls in order to share in that cultural tension...to comemmorate the inability to fit in to an environment. Proteus is trying to re-root...to re-align with its past. Thus, it leaves behind relics in the form of journals for people to continue to record their thoughts and memories so that, when it returns, it can share in their experiences. It is always searching or the answer to its origins and, in the process, teaches its followers, the Proteans, to cherish their roots and always come back to who they are and where they came from.
Approaching The Site and Proteus
Exploring The Vault Above Hanny’s Used by Proteus’ Caretakers
Program Distribution
Pre-Proteus
Circulation
Hardscape
Topography
Vault
Walls and Roof
Retail
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Section B
Connection Detail B: Fabric To Steel Framing
Connection Detail A: Walls Plugging Into Foundations
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ADE 422: Spring 2017 Architectural Studio IV
Student: Bruna Nakhle Instructor: Victor Irizarry