The article mainly talks about fold, fold embodied in objects and spaces, join and divide at the same time, produce shapes, especially curved and involuted spaces.
The baroque is an architecture with endless folds.
A complex curving of the skin, that tends to ignore rather than privilege the interior.
The Leibnizian fold , as an interior mechanism which at once reflects the outside and represents the forces of the inside, is more of a mediating device.
The generation of form from the outside, as envelop or skin, removes the humanistic subject definitely from all individual considerations.
The inside of architecture would not be shaped by occupation or by any other attribute than its profoundly residual character.
The space inside, residual, entirely formed by the dictates of outer skin, and strutted according to the needs of the skin support, served a conjuncturally useful purpose.
Folded city, above-ground and below-ground, private inside and public outside are forced into each other.
The idea of curving of the skin directly relates to how I chose to model my portion of the camera. I treated the surface like a malleable skin, contorting the control points to fold and form the object.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly to Marissa, I used the curving of skin to model my object. This shows how skin is viewed primarily from the exterior, not the interior. This is perhaps a good approach to model an object, like we all did for this first project, but not the best way to model space that we occupy. It is really the interior of a building that is the most important; it is the space in which we inhabit. I don't think interior space as 'residual' is a quality to aspire to; perhaps the folding of skin should occur from the inside-out.
DeleteI find the last idea of the fold fascinating, and is reminiscent of the scene from Inception where the city folds in on itself. This couldn't happen in the real world, but it suggests the idea of folding and bending space in order to provide for unique environments. How is the fold different than our current layered topologies?
ReplyDeleteThe idea of the fold in the article truly enlightened my sense of understanding space. As you stated, the fold joins and divides at the same time, which adds to the philosophy of architecture as more than just a tangible design business. Architecture becomes a philosophy.
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