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Professors: Jesse Reiser & Nanako Umemoto
This studio addressed an array of constructions too large to be mere objects yet too small to constitute even a small work of architecture. In a domain formerly closed within the category of “interior”. This label was inadequate because it upheld a dualism that was derailed in the studio.
The process involved the constituents of the interior: furniture, fittings, coverings, etc., in a transformational matrix that fundamentally altered formal and social space.
Surface (neither inside nor outside) was considered as the primary datum through which a heterogeneous constellation of issues (social, organizational, material, virtual, etc.) was brought into play.
Given the relatively small scale of the endeavor, the body figured as a locus -though neither the only locus nor the defining locus- for the work.
Speaking of the literal body in terms of: -its weight - its impress - its mobility - its multiple affects - that made it less a definition than an extended and infinitely extensible set of potentialities.
In keeping with the heterogeneous constitution of this work a mutually informing set of techniques and procedures was employed. For example: complex topological geometries generated from the Alias platform informed and were informed by material constructions.
The project was produced in part at full scale. This did not imply a return to a craft ethos (though craft as a cognitive and technical procedure was necessary) rather it suggested a form of “management” that married techniques and materials derived in the computational environment with material practices. A virtuality was thus manifest in the partially manageable: the gap between actions and their effects.
“In a similar way the success of a soufflé is not dependent upon the chefs knowledge of food-chemistry, success rather depends on managing attending a complex process that has its own internal dynamic and possibilities.”
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