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Lerner Project
Introduction to Architecture: Representation
Prof. Madeline Schwartzman
Fall 2006
The Erasers Project
Introduction to Architecture: Representation
Prof. Madeline Schwartzman
Fall 2006
Manhattan Transformation Project
Introduction to Architecture: Perception
Prof. Madeline Schwartzman
Spring 2007
STATEMENT
Human have spent years trying to come up with creative ways to control light diffusion in interior spaces. Blinds, shades, shutters, and curtains each evolved as mechanisms largely designed to filter and regulate the way in which sunlight enters a building. In Charles and Ray Eames' home, however, the two architects developed a binary language of light--either fully allowing the Santa Monica sun to penetrate their house's numerous glass panels (not to be confused with windows), or completely deflecting its path with the facade's opaque segments. This either-or construction combined with the Mondrian-esque linearity of the house's exterior elevations drastically changed the standard way in which light enters and diffuses a room. Instead of predictably and consecutively spaced windows simply designed to act as conduits for natural lighting, the geometry of the Eames House creates within the building intersecting and interacting volumes of sunlight that each diffuse differently throughout the interior. My suitcase aims to echo the many ways in which light and translucency interact with each other and to capture the segmented way in which those volumes project themselves through space. Where one section might look solid, a few abbreviated movements show that in fact the illusion of opacity merely comes from a series of interacting and cooperating units which each interact differently with ambient lighting. In this way, light becomes a volumetric solid; capable of creating its own space within an interior.
Suitcase Project
Introduction to Architecture: Perception
Prof. Madeline Schwartzman
Spring 2007
