[04] NORM
Worlds Within Worlds
Socrates Sculpture Park, New York · Spring 2018
INSTITUTION
University of Pennsylvania
ROLE Graduate Architecture Student
COURSE ARCH-602 · Graduate Option Studio IV
PROGRAM Gallery of Worlds · Theater
CRITIC Simon Kim
ROLE Graduate Architecture Student
COURSE ARCH-602 · Graduate Option Studio IV
PROGRAM Gallery of Worlds · Theater
CRITIC Simon Kim
PROJECT OVERVIEW
NORM imagines a sensate architectural character at Socrates Sculpture Park. Instead of treating a building as a stable container, the proposal gives it revealed and withdrawn states that alter its organization and atmospheric conditions.
Behavioral informatics and responsive systems are conceived as means of regulating the internal environment, while peristaltic contraction introduces movement as an architectural behavior.
Galleries mediate between inhabitable spaces and a sequence of “worlds within worlds.” Physical models, plans, sections, and speculative representation examine how occupation might be shaped by a changing relationship among building, technology, and organism.
NORM imagines a sensate architectural character at Socrates Sculpture Park. Instead of treating a building as a stable container, the proposal gives it revealed and withdrawn states that alter its organization and atmospheric conditions.
Behavioral informatics and responsive systems are conceived as means of regulating the internal environment, while peristaltic contraction introduces movement as an architectural behavior.
Galleries mediate between inhabitable spaces and a sequence of “worlds within worlds.” Physical models, plans, sections, and speculative representation examine how occupation might be shaped by a changing relationship among building, technology, and organism.
ARCHITECTURE AS BEHAVIOR
NORM is conceived less as a fixed object than as a changing architectural condition. Movement, occupation, atmosphere, and responsive systems continually reorganize the relationship between the building and the worlds contained within it.
NORM is conceived less as a fixed object than as a changing architectural condition. Movement, occupation, atmosphere, and responsive systems continually reorganize the relationship between the building and the worlds contained within it.
The building does not simply contain its worlds. It changes with them.