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in the tank

.10.95 fall option studio w/ Eric Owen Moss

intervention / insertion

composed of primary euclidian geometry, the cylinder and the sphere, my impulse was to challenge the dominance of the center, to juxtapose it with a multi-centered non-euclidian geometry. but not to create a circumstance of either/or. the two geometries must play a game of hide and seek with eachother.

reference was made to a series of sculptures by Henry Moore, The Helmet. about how the inside does not necessarily result from the outside. there is not a one to one relationship. a dialogue develops between the inside of the outside and the outside of the inside.

studying a section of an article by Greg Lynn, "Multiplicitous and Inorganic Bodies" i became interested in the relationship of the surface to structure in the statue of liberty. to what extent does the skin obligate the structure and the structure obligate the skin?

insert an 'object' in the tank, then invert the object into a space, allowing the housing units to mediate the space between the interior tank wall and the inverted object. the housing units participate in the dialogue between geometries.



the statue of liberty was taken as a departure point. surfaces are generated from sections taken through the statue. any number of things could have be used to generate the form but it could not have been just anything. the consequent form behaves by its own rules and systems of logic.


the surface is divided into 18 vertical bays from the center of the tank. the void or reversed figure is displaced toward the neighboring tank carrying with it its own virtual center relating to its method of construction.



december 1995 www.gsd.harvard.edu/~gsd94lb5/cover.html