bebop space 10 05 05

Dizzy Gillespie

First you learn your instrument. Then you learn music. Then you forget both of those and just blow.

Similar to a masterpiece jazz composition, the listener is unable to talk about the performance as effectively as the performance itself. The observer must interact with the composition in order to experience it. The viewer must listen to drawings that provoke the speculative.

This project is not about traditional plans, sections or graphics. It asks questions about the construction of space, scale, detail, and articulation. The project suggests that improvisation in architecture is not normally practiced as a design process.

The process is a cause and effect relationship that begins as a simple underlying structure that grows with compulsion. The structure develops into a metamorphic labyrinth similar to three-dimensional chess. The studies are a complex piece of resultant simplicity derived from an ordered language, employing the elements of size, shape, treatment, location, and orientation.

The complexity is discernible, traceable back to the original order. It is an open-ended, self-perpetuating continuum similar to fractals. The designer can interrupt the process at any time, allowing for the extraction of space from two-dimensional drawings into three dimensions at any scale, as a building or as an urban design.

rhythmic slices

stage 01 spatial manipulation device

construction space improvisations

analog collage panels

spatial manipulation device: captures of captures

analog-digital crystals

crystal combinations: schemas A & B

stage 02 improvisations 2d to 3d

digital tracings: encoding the photo-collage as diagram

iterative study: pinch and fade

extension line drawing: evolving internal structural reference system

rhythmic variations take cues and clues from underlying theme

chromatic encoding implies an equivocal depth

subtracted extended improvisation

subtractive detail fragment

schema B

source collage

structural drawing

chromatic variation 01.5

analytical syncopations

figure/ground variations

physical (analog) relief model derived from encodings

improvised depths and thicknesses

digital relief: non-improvisational recording

expanded “incomplete” digital relief

transverse section constants and variables

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transverse sections

01 zone 02 zone 03 zone

treatment variable - zone 01

transverse/longitudinal overlay variations - zone 01

15 minute variations - zone 01

15 minute variations - zone 02

15 minute variations - zone 03

stage 03 liquid improvisations

transverse section B

transverse improvisations

sectional sequence 1

sectional sequence 2

sectional sequence 3

liquid encoding

liquid distortion

stage 04 design performance

bebop space first take

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