2012 | critic: Jeff Kipnis
Experimenting, both collectively and individually, with notions of what Jeff Kipnis describes as “projected ontologies” and “partial-affective narratives,” this studio seeks after affects by manipulating form. It all begins with a simple tangram and a severely limited toolbox from which to work. Studies quickly reveal how various configurations yield shapes that trigger tangible visual associations, much like seeing an animal in a cloud. These objects give the viewer enough form to self-formulate, both physically and emotionally, an idea about what they are seeing without ever quite arriving at that “I get it moment,” beyond which a great deal of the architecture’s interest is lost.
These ideas manifested in the design of a duplex followed by the exterior of a “triplex.” These were then used to create a proposed neighborhood master plan in which all thirty housing structures from the class could be arranged to play off of one another. In doing so, these ideas are both applied to each individual object and to many objects simultaneously.
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