PUSH & PULL
Push & Pull
when
2016. fall
where
what
instructor
Stephanie Lin, Wes Rozen
Architectonics
Cooper Union, Manhattan
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Indisputably, the early 1900s is one of the chaotic periods during modern history of human civilization. Major changes in society was spawning across many fields. Architecture and art was one of the fields going under massive restructuring.
One of my interest at the major movement in art and architecture of the early 1900s, is the ‘constructivist movement’. Simple but strong structural and geometrical metaphor is what always excite me. Among many constructivist paintings, Lajos Kassak’s ‘tower of color’ was somewhat interesting for its three dimensional depth despite the absence of shadow. The pursuit of its three dimensional existence could be an evoking design sprint to a young architect.
Phase 1 _ converting images
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Colored boxes are extruded from the black line drawn below. Proceeding the image rather as if it is a plan or a section, determines the direction of extrusion of the colored boxes. Is it from front to back or is it form bottom to top?
Color codes on the blocks determines if the extrusion will push through or pull back. Converting the logics on to a cubic figure, it starts to create a voxelised cube.
Phase 2 _ inhabitable structure
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Starting from the voxelised cube on phase 1, phase 2 was about making it inhabitable. Various architectural terminologies were given such as stairs, ramp, concave, convex, shaft, bridge, maze and so on. From the given, ‘stairs’ and ‘maze’ are the prime elements that were used.
For a maze like promenade, voxel cube had to be broken down into several pieces with the same logistics as phase 1, creating openings. As these broken pieces are being pushed and pulled, moments were they would collide occurred. This proceeds to a moment where the cube becomes a box of multiple free forms overlapping each other. Converting these intersected solids to voids led to opening for architectural fragments to settle in.
Circulation was planned to loop over the entire form, passing through all the fragments existing.
