Chapter 3
Unfocus: Field Condition
Unfocus: Field Condition
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“We know of two ways to unfocus attention. Symmetry is one of them; the other is the over-all where each small part is a sample of what you find elsewhere.”
- John Cage |
Roof Model / 50" x 20"
Roof Plan
Floor Model / 50" x 20"
Floor Plan
Reflected Ceiling Model / 50" x 20"
Reflected Ceiling Plan (RCP)
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In order to understand and redefine things in the constantly camouflaged pixel images, tracing, as a pure vector design tool, becomes very useful. It defines boundaries, it’s easy to scale, and it expresses relationships.
The tracing of the site is my own interpretation of the things we see but we don’t see. The tracings become the 10 species of the site, and they are released and relocated back onto the site according to certain field conditions and based on their social meanings. As they appear in the roof plan, floor plan, and the RCP (reflected ceiling plan). For example, the container lump, tracing of the container boxes with their shadows, is relocated to the interior of the building, becoming the storage spaces of the mall. The car lumps, tracings of parked cars and their shadows, become the parking space for driverless cars inside the mall. The legs, tracing of the street lights and utility poles with their shadows, become walls embed with pipes and wires. Some elements are being extruded down from the roof. The larger stain, tracing of the stain or dust on the roof, is turned into courtyards. Some of the smaller stain, become the seating and the furniture. The lanterns, tracing of the mechanical boxes, are extruded below the ceiling, becoming light wells. In this way, we can keep the legibility or (mis)readability of the building from the top view (Google images etc.), and at the same time, create multiple built structures for different uses. Under the roof; different than how it was, it’s now an exuberance of field objects. |
Project done in CED, UC Berkeley | Year: 2017 | Primary Adviser: Neyran Turan | Secondary Adviser: M. Paz Gutierrez