OBVIOUS
Understanding the political implications of an aesthetic language in shaping the visual experience of the city. This project argues that facades, even when buildings are privately owned, are important for the city at large because they are inevitably the background of our public imagination. Any facade language strategy is by default political because it negotiates how the privacy of human interactions come to terms with a surrounding social and cultural context.
Beginning with a formal exercise will work on a series of choreographed experiments on traditional tectonics arrangements. This façade elevations are a choreographed collage of layered, overlapped, patched pictures of tectonic assemblies of bricks, windows, doors chimneys and antennas. This visual representation of building forms create a rigorous tension towards comprehension of what is real through fictional architectural form.
MASSING STUDIES
By definition the vertical schema embeds a social hierarchy from ground to top, it represents the property dream by stacking land parcels on top of each other and exacerbates the envy of owning the top floor. Its typology produces the demanded occupiable surface whilst building over less area in comparison to a horizontal schema and, hereby, it liberates ground. Providing unoccupied land, it contributes further to the neighborhood it is in by gibving back increased communal, educational, cultural and commercial programs, and increased public space.
BUILDING TO GROUND
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Once a massing is established depending on the needs of the site and program the façade is approached using the same collage techniques as the first formal studies. These layered, overlapped, patched pictures of tectonic assemblies of bricks can now by applies to the massing itself.
OVERALL SITE
MODEL PHOTOS
