ARCH 702 | Senior Research Studio II
Reanimating the Prosaic Instructor | Matthew Parker
Architecture as Objects Invoking Emotions
ARCHITECTURE AS OBJECTS INVOKING EMOTIONS Vijul Shah
Using the idea of how Architecture invokes emotions in its interpreter’s mind, three different strategies were explored using formal autonomy. Indifference: A wall is a familiar object, used to join the floor and the ceiling. But what if it doesn not do that? The form explores an idea when a wall is used as a space creating mechanism. It willingly detaches from the floor and the ceiling, creating multiple planes of spatial geometries. These geometries can tehn be explored to create internal as well as external spaces. The form exerts an emotion of a weird, random object.
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Estrangement: A wall is used to enclose spaces. But what if the wall is stacked together to create un-enclosed spaces? The form tries to use a Wall as a compositional elements, collecting and deforming it to create un-familiarity. The overall composition made of walls completely eludes from its original meaning and interpretation, and invokes an emotion of strangness. Ambivalence: A wall is usually solid, having straight edges. But what if it expands and becomes something else. The form is ambivalent to a regular and an abstract geometry. It translates into dumb, a-frontal form as it moves from one end to other.
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