Architecture Undergraduate Experience Video

Professor:

While it seems like a really complicated sequence, it’s really quite simple. If it’s thought about just as–you have the painting, you have the wall, and then you have the social program. And each student should be able to kind of describe, align, and place those three things.

Professor:

The idea of drawing them through, it’s an interesting thought. The thing draws itself. Maybe you shouldn’t try to keep it together. Maybe the failure is something that you should allow.

Professor:

The way that you might be able to bring the program in, at scale, is through a higher degree of abstraction. And say, that’s a garden, and that’s water, and this is grass, and this is a path, you know, you could read so much into it. It’s something that’s personal—a space to call your own.

Student:

And so you have like this layer, that goes from like the city, all the way down to your private space. The layers eventually became a discussion and exploration of, um, weaving. Weaving of space, I would say voids, solids, and probably most importantly lines of sight.

Professor:

You could stand in the place in this apartment and be looking through somebody else’s unit and outside space, your own unit, and all of that gets collapsed. So it becomes very compact, right? You’re not just looking through the series of rooms. It’s not just looking—it’s physical proximity.

Professor:

That doesn’t bother me at all though. Like, I mean, I know what you’re saying, if it was real, ok, and if you were to actually…gonna build this model, you know, I would say, ok everyone has to sign a contract or something. But, but, I mean, I’m willing, I’m willing to go with that, I’m willing to, I’m willing to accept this.