Systems

Tschumi : Madness + Combinative

The Folies aim at developing a corollary with Tschumi’s architectural theory that talks about being informed by what exists – space, the body, movement and history which cannot be reduced to these factors in isolation. They take into consideration both the unexpected and the unintentional, the pragmatic and the passionate and encompasses all that which was excluded from the realm of architecture for belonging to the more irrational world. The point of the folie acts as the focus of a dissociated space, becoming a common denominator while adding up to a system of relationships between varied objects, events and people.

It has been established in the texts by Tschumi that combination exists only within a complex system of transformational relations. The initial explorations in the Manhattan Transcripts were the guiding research principle behind the La Villette, which was of being an empty slot.6 Described through “the football player skates on the battlefield’’ it describes the interchangeability of objects, people and events. The main concern of the project was to apply these theoretical concerns on a practical level and move away from the ‘pure mathematics’ to the applied mathematics The two strategies explored were distinctive from each other through design being a result of transformations and becoming the origin The second strategy, that instead of being a result of an extensive design process, the design itself proves to be a starting point for the series of transformations that eventually leads to the creation of the built reality. This ends in the formation of the three abstract autonomous systems.