“Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged futility of parametric form-giving, this studio celebrates architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest in the topic of form is neither aesthetic nor ideological. Contrary to the notion of shape (with which it is often confused), form is for us a syntactic, procedural, and (increasingly) technical proposition with a fair amount of disciplinary autonomy, like the study of language in the 1970s -or the more recent emergence of object-orientation in the software industry. “ -Legendre
This project aims to explore the figural limits of the parametric surface model-- a conceptual vehicle chosen for its relentless abstraction and relative resistance to predictable questions of function and architectural figuration. It is the superimposition of differentiated surfaces which lend the tower a unique spacial quality for viewing and displaying of art. It is through the overlap of mathematically defined surfaces that the tower takes its form- generating pockets of space programed as artist studios embedded within a fluid and continuous circulation path throughout the tower exhibition space, thus challenging the notion of the tower as a series of isolated or compartmentalized spaces. Referent to the NY Gugenheim Museum, it is the spacial fluidity in conjunction with the abstract nature of height which generates an exciting and unique space for the display of contemporary art, and performance work
This project aims to explore the figural limits of the parametric surface model-- a conceptual vehicle chosen for its relentless abstraction and relative resistance to predictable questions of function and architectural figuration. It is the superimposition of differentiated surfaces which lend the tower a unique spacial quality for viewing and displaying of art. It is through the overlap of mathematically defined surfaces that the tower takes its form- generating pockets of space programed as artist studios embedded within a fluid and continuous circulation path throughout the tower exhibition space, thus challenging the notion of the tower as a series of isolated or compartmentalized spaces. Referent to the NY Gugenheim Museum, it is the spacial fluidity in conjunction with the abstract nature of height which generates an exciting and unique space for the display of contemporary art, and performance work
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