Indeterminate Delineations | Fall 2019

Critic: Maya Alam

Partner: Sierra Summers

The project site, once a house, now a ruin has undergone a transformation, creating a new site for exploration. Elements of the human scale have been broken down over time: stairs, windows, doors, chimneys, shrubbery, etc. The wild foliage, overgrown front lawn, shifting scales of graffiti and eroded openings give the house a new frame of context. The building hints at what once was but also creates a new space on its own.

The digital scanning of architectural places allows for the reinterpretation of reality into an alternative fiction, an altered but similar world. The digital scans are valued for the errors and misinterpretations that occur during the translation from physical to digital. From those reinterpretations, we begin to identify alternative spatial conditions; an exploding sky becomes a new roof and vegetation embeds itself into a previously flat wall. These errors create a new site that constantly shifts scales. Eroded architectural features hint at one scale while graffiti suggest another.