Field Extraction

Studio project at The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), instructor Anna Neimark, 2013

From the field, an extraction was taken in order to find a form. In order to produce a multilevel representation of the field’s values, the slice was taken after a series of operations were performed onto the field to transpose its relationships into three dimensions.

This form was, in turn, representative of two different ontologies: that of the figure and that of the field. Its interaction therewithin began to compose possible architectural space. As a massing, it explored different exterior spatial qualities, the zones between enclosed and exposed space as well as sectional properties of the field as a whole.

For this, the spatial relationship of the positive and negative areas were flipped. This left the figure as a subtractive cut from the volume of the cube used to extract the entire form from the field. In essence, the figure itself became an imprinted geometry. Rather than outwardly orientating its values, it begged the viewer to explore in more sustained depth a relationship between the positive and the negative.