2010F_Design Studio_Seong Section
ARCH-2200 | Eunjeong Seong, Adjunct Professor
The Knotted Construct
Selected Student Work:
William Pyatt
Yifeng Zhao
The studio focused on exploring the fundamental relationship between body and space. Through investigation on bodily skeletal and muscular joints we employed terms such as the flow of forces and ability to act against force: students created new joint/joinery operations by conceptualizing the physical operation of a joint and then translating this to become an architectural/ tectonic language.
By filming an actual performance of knotting three given rods with a sets of ropes the students working in pairs experienced the constant flux and reshaping of the spaces between themselves and that the rod/rope apparatus instigated. By creating and releasing these relationships the students discovered reciprocal actions and conditional stability. Students were asked to: conceptualize the sequential process of movement; consider the velocity and orientation of force; reveal the acceleration of change; create new joinery system capable of rigidity but also live and changing. Joints operate in certain ways: choreograph of movement so that it can work in joinery system that reflects the new flow of force.
The term ‘equilibrium/ balance’ was introduced to students to help translate one form of a joint to another: this term isn’t a static condition as it constantly changes. From this investigation emerges the ability to imagine new architectural spaces based in time and on change. This work causes a new search to articulate historically stilled theories of mass, volume and weight within concepts of time and velocity.
Yixuan Hu
William Pyatt
Katelyn Rauth
Yifeng Zhao
