SOA - Spectral Ornamentation Alchemy

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Spectral Ornamentation Alchemy

(Spectral - Substratum, Ornamentation - crystal grown on substratum, Alchemy - Crystallization process)

The thesis explores formation on a per molecule level. It introduces a design method where the willfully precise forming of a substratum is overwritten by the dynamics of crystal formation. The pioneers of form finding designers of 70s are Buckminster Fuller and Frei Otto. Unlike Louis Kahn’s inquiry into architectural elements "What do you want brick?" they regarded form as the interplay of material and forces.

The inner structure is very simple, the molecules want to attache in the same way time and again. The complexity of the crystal is a function of the imperfections in the lattice. A perfect large crystal is one with a very regular lattice structure over thousands of molecules in all directions. As the crystals develops the structure becomes extremely curved, therefore hard to recognize the direction of growth but fundamentally retains the shape. The crystal growth on substratum becomes embellishing ornament. (Spectral - Substratum, Ornamentation - crystal grown on substratum, Alchemy - Crystallization process)

The work comes from a series of studies on crystallization process of sodium chloride / table salt, it's a prototyping material, other crystals can be used to if studied in a similar method and their procedural transformations. In physical model, the crystal accretion on substratum happens gradually and solidifies, between tightly spaced layers of shale and the aggregate was forced to grow in a laterally compressed, radiating manner. Under normal conditions, it would form crystal cubes. The supersaturated solution is poured over the objects over the couple of weeks depending on the required crystal size. Through capillary action salt crystals are drawn out of the container on to substratum. Crystals can be found grouped together as lots of small crystals or as huge individual crystals. They vary in size from those at the microscopic level all the way up to crystals that are meters in length. The thickness of structure can be controlled through parameters such as airflow, temperature and the consistency and flow of salt solution.

The digital investigations happen through the layering, carving, and manipulation of interior space, a new coherency between architectural conditions can be explored where space is created through the excessive layering of mass and volume and the envelope is a bi-product of the hyper-articulation of the crystal. The use of an envelope as an initiator of the design process has been constantly in flux, always trying to blur the line of inside and outside in order to produce ambiguous space.

This proposal for a new Städel Residency Program on Städelcampus, explore the use of figurative elements in multiple performative scales and conditions at a micro level to produce architecture which defies totalistic readings. The residency program is as much for personal development as it is a lab for exploring future conditions of how we want to live with/inhabit technology.

For more detail on material studies please check the below link
https://vimeo.com/user33878050/videos

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