LOVE WITH SOUL
Animal House
Instructor: Eleanor Pries, Ronald Rael
Individual Work
This project is about a house, that emerges from a manifesto that suggests the house, as an architectural typology, while having its origins in many different environments, also has its origins in humankind's understanding of a particular plant or animal. Through an understanding of a chimerical translation of a selected animal, a design proposal is made to defend the thesis of a manifesto by proposing the skin, material, and structure (endo/exoskeleton), as well as the form, space and ordering system that comprises the house.
As a precedent, I build upon the methodology of the reclusive 20th-century architect Douglas Darden, who would create, then translate, ideograms (chimeras created by the overlay and juxtaposition of several images), to evoke architectural form imbued with meaning.
The image of a model is a black-and-white high-contrast photographic image of a physical model produced in a previous assignment. The chimera ideogram is overlaid and juxtaposed four graphic materials, developed in sequence, from the same source material, and as perpendicular views of an imagined architectural form.
The translation is the keyword to describe the process of chimera ideogram to model and the process of chimera to animal house, which, at the same time, enhances the relationship between narrative protagonists.
