Patternism

with Nick McAdoo
Critic: Brennan Buck (Yale)
Year: 2014

This projects looks at the relationship between exterior and interior by reconciling the diverging part to whole relationships among computational and compositional themes in digital form. If computation generates a field of self-similar parts that lacks an overall external figure and if composition produces a monolithic figure that is spatially uniform, this project creates internal organization from external figure. By subdividing the figure into recursive scales of figures and voids, the external figure – a bunny in this case – challenges homogeneity by organizing both internally and externally a series of linked, non-intersecting, irregular tetrahedra. These linked volumes create a continuous poche that generates cellular voids within the bunny – each autonomous yet connected to its neighbors. The result is a porous network of cells that allows light and shadow to define the quality of the interior space.

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Published in Retrospecta 2013-2014