ARCH 672 - PROPOSITIONS
FALL 2024PROJECTS
Patrick Wilton
Matthew Mansour
3 x 3 + 6 = Pink Chickens
Each student designed four domestic worlds, or the relational properties that structure domestic environments. Three house’ishes, 3 weeks each, one at 6 weeks. We began with an Assembled/Appropriated House (made from downloaded digital models). Two other houses were selected from: a Critical Fragments House; a Hybrid House/Garden/ Landscape House; a Drawing Type(s) House; and Two Houses in One. The fourth house, Domestic Restraints was framed in relation to American artist Matthew Barney’s ‘Drawing Restraints’ projects and his provocation that muscular development and creative growth occur through forms of resistance. Each studio member designed a house that was subjected to conceptual obstacles and site induced resistances to acquire strengthened spatial design muscles and innovative domestic fiber. In ‘Pink Chickens’, one might design a house that ‘makes, remakes and unmakes itself’, situated on an iceberg, for ex.
We moved between abstract situations, let’s say the x, y, z coordinate system; to ‘representational’ situations, an image of a painting; to ‘real’ situations. These variations enabled an enlargement of what kinds of situations are possible to work with in architecture. Equally, we considered material states as digitally generated, coded, and ‘real’, optimizing the possibilities of representation. We augmented, rerouted and if necessary, abandoned values inscribed in architectural education, from who’s included to what’s accepted, and how things are learned. Conceptual, methodological, and representational broadening and metaphorical amateurs, detectives and acupuncturists roamed nearby.