Spring 2016
Group of two
President
Started from Peter Eisenman's House VI in which strategies of autonomy and de-familiarization are found to disengage material, function, site and semantic associations, the House VI also shows the interest in syntax between architecture and language and the search for architecture as autonomy (a condition in which architectural meaning exists in the object itself ). House VI, read as an autonomous object, can be interpreted at various scales. With the reference of a figure, it is in the scale of house(A1). With the images of housing communities, the scale of context changes(A2). And the images applied as veneer has the potential to be misread as the scale of cities(A3). Thus the precedent images reshape the House VI
that results in an artifact that performs at multiple scales simultaneously through constant re-evaluation of the project based on each image that influences its reading. This transformation can be seen as fictions constructed to dislocate autonomy by becoming collections of architectural knowledge and repositories of architectural precedents.
Subject
The subject of investigation is to question the notion of autonomy through architectural precedents that imparts a notion of scale. By creating a fiction-inventing system that allows for referential scales and misreading.