Familiar & Unfamiliar

John Amiel R. Rivera

My definitions of Indifference, Ambivalence and Estrangement although different, falls under an overarching theme of familiar and unfamiliar thus all chunks follow the same form.

Buildings because of their ubiquity causes familiarity. Its really a journey that has been travelled over and over again, and the chunks are an opportunity to not only re-discover that journey but its more about that moment of pause between the recognition of the object and the realization of its true nature.

I was curious about the idea of shrinking the architecture down to product scale, disassembling and unrolling its parts revealing their familiar form. The floor, walls, roof and windows have their own material association and is often defined by their placement within the object itself. But what happens when we start randomly slicing these parts, start shifting their material properties, and then put it back together the way it was supposed to?

This idea is starting to create an object or an environment that sits between the familiar and the unfamiliar. As we go through this journey of re-discovering this new object, we slowly start to realize parts of it that might seem familiar, but not quite.

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