CAFE PARAPHILIA
This thesis investigates the implications of architectural material in creating new atmospheric effects on complex surfaces. My desired manifestation of "materiality" in architecture is to arrive to new aesthetic compositions and effects.
While this materiality can vary from a wide range of visible to invisible mediums, the process, techniques, and exploration of composite behaviors of these media becomes a critical component of this thesis. It becomes a testing ground to re-explore the digital softwares and fabrication technologies, in finding new ways of transformation of material information and dynamics; from analog to digital, and vice versa, digital to analog.
However this process does not stand alone without its implications in creating new atmospheric effects. Sudden, unexpected and what Jeffery Kipnis describes as "pheromonal" effects are the new generation of desired sensations in architecture. Effects which induce immediate changes in behavior, regardless of their direct association to the representative source.
Finally, the canvas for these investigations is the contemporary surface. The voluptuous surfaces that do not fit within the traditional models of the "curtain wall" or the "facade". The relationship between mass, structure, fenestration, and interior can be rethought as complex surfaces, embedded with composite or synthetic material information which invokes new, and unanticipated sensations.
This thesis investigates the implications of architectural material in creating new atmospheric effects on complex surfaces. My desired manifestation of "materiality" in architecture is to arrive to new aesthetic compositions and effects.
While this materiality can vary from a wide range of visible to invisible mediums, the process, techniques, and exploration of composite behaviors of these media becomes a critical component of this thesis. It becomes a testing ground to re-explore the digital softwares and fabrication technologies, in finding new ways of transformation of material information and dynamics; from analog to digital, and vice versa, digital to analog.
However this process does not stand alone without its implications in creating new atmospheric effects. Sudden, unexpected and what Jeffery Kipnis describes as "pheromonal" effects are the new generation of desired sensations in architecture. Effects which induce immediate changes in behavior, regardless of their direct association to the representative source.
Finally, the canvas for these investigations is the contemporary surface. The voluptuous surfaces that do not fit within the traditional models of the "curtain wall" or the "facade". The relationship between mass, structure, fenestration, and interior can be rethought as complex surfaces, embedded with composite or synthetic material information which invokes new, and unanticipated sensations.
