wubEGG explores methods of representation beyond the physical through techniques of digital projection onto a physical model. Rather than designing an overly complex object, or panelization of that object, a decision was made to use relatively simple beginnings, and achieve complexity by means of digital projection. Inspiration was found through Eisenman and particularly through his perspective drawings and models. The basic form developed was a parabola that is skewed into perspective, and then capped on the other side by a mirrored version of itself. This provided an “egg” shape as the basic framework to project onto. The egg was then panelized using a series of rotating planar diamonds. These diamonds could be read as diamonds if viewed individually, hexagons if viewed as a set of 4, or by allowing the 4th tile to not lay flush with the egg, but instead point inward, one could instead read an axonometric cube. As the tiling pattern moves along the egg, the scale changes and the axonometric cubes are then projecting inward to an infinitely smaller cube. While relatively simple in form and panelization, this object is heavily loaded with architectural code.

The digital projections onto the object could then start to point to further possibilities embedded within the object; its inherent complexity only becomes visible through projection. What is, what was, and what can be are all explored and the object begins to take on a multitude of meanings that were not immediately apparent upon initial inspection. What is a wall, what is a beam,….what is this egg? Questions, perhaps, that can begin to be answered through the technique of digital projection. If the goal of projection is not simply for show, but instead to mine for embedded architectural language and theory, projection itself may have as much relevance to the discipline of architecture as drawing has had over its entire history.

Nicholas Barger, Jack Gaumer, and Oleg Korchinski
Instructors: Andrew Atwood
Sci-Arc, Spring 2012

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