↑ core 2 project : ‘library of sense’ or ‘library of non-sense',
expanding beyond notions of pavilion, it utilizes the site as the library, whereby an architecture of depriving users’ senses is
utilized to bring users’ to meditation on specific points on the site — specifically visualizing and auditory senses, which are
privileged in American culture, but not always in the cases of the the cultures of people that moved into the site.
Moreover, with a large — one of the largest in the US — African burial grounds buried under the site, the notion of
depriving visualizing and auditory senses brings more potent, painful, site-specific points to meditate on and read into.
Here, not only is the model at 1:1/8” scale structurally, but the model functions at a 1:1 scale in its auditory functions, where
anybody may hold it to their ear and hear the unique and disorienting experience of completely depriving any sounds
in spite of it being a non-enclosed structure.
tools : Rhino, Grasshopper, Autodesk MeshMixer, FormLabs PreForm,
SLS resin print, acoustic foam / hand-cut acoustic foam pieces
photo : Columbia GSAPP
↑ core 2 project precedent analysis : analyzing how the Vennesla Library by Helen+Hard ( Vennesla, Norway ) ,
engages ( or misses the opportunity to engage ) the body and senses by analyzing
its reading pods in discourse with its structural elements and details
by drawing details and collaging / imposing these details onto themselves
tools : Rhino, Rhino Render, Adobe Ai, Processing
↓ core 2 project precedent analysis : now, utilizing its reading pods to bring a new discourse to find the uncanny / uncanny moments where
users may potentially move in and out of individual and collective isolated sensory atmospheres
tools : Rhino, Rhino Render, Adobe Ai
↑ core 2 project in process : modelling on how users could transition in and out of individual and collective isolated sensory atmospheres
tools : Rhino, DIWire CNC-Wire-Bender, soldering iron, hand-made rig,
brass wire, brass rings, solder, laser-cut / laser-etched acrylic, pine for rig
↓ core 2 project in process : modelling on how users could transition in and out of individual and collective isolated sensory atmospheres,
now on the site and with an understanding of structural elements and structural conditions ( e.g.: ADA conditions)
tools : Rhino, Rhino Render, Adobe Ai
↑ core 2 project : modelling the building and its elements at 1:1/8” scale
w/ closer look into modelling of the shell / thin-shell clusters with circulation in and out of / within and without of the clusters.
These shells / thin-shells utilize the limits of the human eye / human vision so that the users believe that they are
fully blind when in a fully closed shell and fully focused on points of political interest on the site for the opened shells.
More, not only is the model at 1:1/8” scale structurally, but the model functions at a 1:1 scale in its auditory functions, where
anybody may hold it to their ear and hear the unique and disorienting experience of completely depriving any sounds
in spite of it being a non-enclosed structure.
tools : Rhino, Autodesk MeshMixer, FormLabs ProForm,
SLS resin prints, acoustic foam / hand-cut acoustic foam pieces, acrylic, acrylic piping
↓ core 2 project in process : modelling on how users could transition in and out of individual and collective isolated sensory atmospheres,
now on the site and with an understanding of structural elements and structural conditions ( e.g.: ADA conditions)
now rationalizing for fabrication; that is, for both real fabrication of structure and fabrication for model-making
tools : Rhino, Rhino Render, Adobe Ai
↑ core 2 project : ‘library of illiteracy / illiteracies’, studio film, w/ our studio’s 1:1/8” studio site model
tools : Rhino, Autodesk MeshMixer, FormLabs ProForm,
SLS resin prints, acoustic foam / hand-cut acoustic foam pieces, acrylic, acrylic piping
plywood, threaded steel rods, steel c-channels, laser-cut / laser-etched acrylic,
tulle / tulle netting, organza
cnc milling, laser-cutting, laser-etching, sewing
core 2 critic : Christoph Kumpusch ( / )