Spring 2016
The first step is to interpret the House VI in firstly small scale of housings to public facilities (B1)and secondly large scale of living communities to cities( E1). And then two strategies are separately used to transform these two system of scales: pixelation (B-C-D) and patterning (E-F).
Pixelation:
1, Le Corbusier's unite d'habitation as a housing that contains single living units firstly applied on the surface of House VI(B1) , after pixelation (B2), its shape transformed and thus change the House VI three dimensionally(B3).
2, The institute of biological transaction from Rem Koolhaas's Exodus project firstly act as the scale of a public institute (C1), and after pixelation, its scale changes into Le Corbusier's Radiant City(C3).
Patterning:
1, City is composed by living units ( plan of unite d'habitation) and public facility ( gathering space from Bibliotheque Nationale de France ) and the organization of them can be misread as non-stop city (E1 to E2).
2, Repeating some part of Captive Globe (F1) changes the visual effect of the project to the plan of Radiant city which can become the pattern of the surface(F2). The surface has the ability to physically transform the House VI (F3).
Summary
By repurposing Eisenman's House VI as a project based on architectural reference, the plasticities project allows for multiple readings of both scale and a common architectural precedent, becoming plastic and ambiguous about its size, in both model and drawing.
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