Saturated collapses imagery, figure and ornament to propose a residential condition organized through a density of material and media. The central core of the tower is clad in a highly articulated led voxel array. The detailed patterning of the voxel geometry mirrors the image manipulation it projections, confusing the distinction between media and matter. Interior spaces are organized through partial separations generated through locally dense column grids and the implied depth chiaroscuro effects in the media array. Physical space can be constrained through illusory lighting and the parallax generated by occupant positions in relationship to the column formation. Intense spacial specificity can be generated without relying on absolute separation or articulation. As human perception and spatial cognition changes through the developmental and neurological effects of social media and personal devices, new models of spatial organization and articulation in architecture should be devolved with an emphasis on localized interface and non-totalistic formal language. The clearly legible figures and thresholds of past forms of architecture should give way to the fully extensive and unknowable whole.
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Featured in AD Magazine 2019 “Complicit: The Creation Of and Collaboration With Intelligent Machines”
Rehm, M.C. (2019), Complicit: The Creation Of and Collaboration With Intelligent Machines. Archit. Design, 89: 94-101.
