ARCH 702 | Senior Research Studio II
Experimental Chunks
Reanimating the Prosaic Instructor | Matthew Parker
EXPERIMENTAL CHUNKS Dustin Dodd
The experimental chunks phase worked as a study in revealing the futility of producing form within the bounds of terminology that is problematic when associated with the production of architectural artifacts. Indifference, ambivalence and estrangement are terms that create an imperceptible translation for architectural form, but in an attempt to produce constraints and sudo definitions, a result is produced that brings a new rationale into the realm of production. Within this study prosaic elements of architectural objects are at the center of these new definitions and act as the catalyst for alternative applications. Each Definition is explained in this context below.
Estrangement definition and methodology - An estranged approach to architectural production rejects the common applications of prosaic components and instead actively produces forms that challenge the longstanding application of such elements. The following chunk examples are the result of this attempt to create formal production within the constraints of the problematic definitions. Alternative material study for ambivalence chunk.
Indifference definition and methodology - An approach to producing architectural indifference understands a components intended use, and actively deploys those components with a specific disregard to The common practices that those components function within. Ambivalence definition and methodology - An ambivalent approach to architectural generation internalizes the standard application of prosaic elements within a building and then externalizes an array of Contradictory deployments that produce a juxtaposition of Conditions that produce tension in the formal resolution.
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