Box Project Statement:

An architecture that juxtaposes the sensory and the visual optics within a bounding volume. The exterior can be interpreted as a soft, comfort and warm material, but the material has been decontextualized by adding the coarse texture on the surface. The exterior geometry uses pressure points to differentiate the edges from a hard to a blurred edge by the amount of Psi (7.5 Psi creates a hard edge, 5 Psi for a medium edge, and 3.5 Psi for a blurred edge). The interior consists of the coexistence of materials transforming from a physical material to a virtual material. The interior can be interpreted as a hard, monolithic mass. The visual effects of the curtain can only be seen in one elevation creating a misreading of the material in the other elevations.

Tower Theater Project Statement:

The project bases itself in the idea of layering materiality, and how this one can start producing estrangement within the characteristics of the whole. With a total of four distinct materials being layered onto each other or side to side, various uncertainties start to pop up, resulting on a lack of context within the box. The constant play of unexpected moments, scalar problems and formal differences come together to produce this effects. Thus creating moments of slippages within the whole. This project tackles the issues of a decontextualized building sitting within a highly dense urban context.