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Political Illiteracy
PUBLISHED IN Abstract Publication
GSAPP Spring 2019: Illiterate Library Studio
Instructor: Christoph Kumpusch
TA: Matthew Ninivaggi
Tools and Fabrication: Rhinoceros, Kangaroo, LadyBug, Illustrator, PremierePro, AfterEffect, welding, casting, woodwork, laser cutting
Project Description
Layering — Lighting: Collecting stories develop an accumulation culture of immaterial and material knowledge. In the detail studies, this phenomenon was translated into an assemblage of a variety of details of buildings such as libraries, performing spaces, publishers, and galleries. The multiplicity of building typologies through layering detail sections initiates a dialogue between them.
Abstracting — Re-Contextualizing: Details, metaphorically, are the DNA of the building. By extracting them, changing their context through mutation such as sampling, rescaling, and projecting, the project departures from precision to abstraction, blurring each building's DNA.
Absorbing — Fragmenting — Projecting: Books contain a linear condition starting with the cover organized by the spine. By dissolving the spine and fragmenting the sequence, the book has no longer a linear condition, but rather a field quality that allows an interwoven reading of the book. The book's cover turns into memories of the buildings that one day will no longer exist. These fragments of memories are archaeologically absorbed, metabolized, excavated, and projected to create fragments of new stories.
Synthesizing — Metabolizing: This last study becomes the shell of my library in which the acrylic pieces are the window to the new perspective that frames fragments of the building. Moreover, the shape of the shell absorbs the memories of the site, metabolizes and project new fragments and stories. The shell also has a dynamic nature in which the viewer will always have different perspectives when looking at the building.