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UNCANNY FIGURATION

THESIS PROJECT
SPRING 2015
PROF:Mark Ericson
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Architecture is typically organized and structured through abstract systems of order, deriving formal and spatial strategies through the intentional and systematic accumulation of geometry.  An approach that favors purity, alignment, and clarity. This thesis proposes another alternative, systematically deploying the uncanny as a drawing methodology for the production of form, space and programmatic organization.  In lieu of abstract geometry, Uncanny Figuration, accumulates familiar figures drawn from existing buildings as an organizational frame work for the production of architecture. In so doing, it allows unexpected interactions between programs, forms and spaces.  Restrooms intersect the proscenium of a theatre stage. The collision of stair geometry and window mullions introduce a dense organizational grid which is materialized as a series of pleated surfaces.  The familiar figures of architectural form become the progenitors an architecture of unexpected encounters, disruptions, and resolutions. 

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