OBLIQUE BAS RELIEF

GRADUATE OPTION STUDIO

instructor: raveevarn choksombatchai + luisa caldas

Berkeley / 2020

In rotating the plan of Aires Mateus' EDP building, a true north elevation views the building in oblique. Viewed in oblique, the building's defining fins collapse into each other, creating layers that recede into space, behaving as a perspective might despite being orthographic. Further use of bas relief explored how subleties in the building's form and facade could be expressed with the layering system to break the solidity of the layered mass.