Form:uLA is an experimental architecture, design, and graphic communication "studio". We also refer to it as a "practice", because that's all we actually do :)
Friday, November 21, 2008
sketchy-bits... shaken not stirred
detail sneak
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Res-idue
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Oceanside condo re:skin
Collaboration with Cameron Crockett... funding fell thru.. as usual... but a good project nonetheless.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
one more round [reverse order]
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This piece symbolically explores the threshold between worlds.. between souls. It proposes its own question, that of the “who’s there”? [and perhaps just as important, “who’s answering”?].
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more from the basement...
It accepts its role as a social informant, a receptacle for the present condition of privacy control, a membrane for reflection of observation.
The “anti-welcome mat”, though a somewhat misleading description, suggests a condition that the dwellers do not offer their home as a constant open-condition, but rather one that is open only upon identification and invitation.
Perhaps it’s more about the mat with the familiar inscription written in code, so that the unaware, the unenlightened, never recognize the message, while those that are invited have the symbolic translation to realize the opening of the home to outsiders.
The construct deals with “dwelling” as a function for the individual in excess. Singular occupancy does not mean in this case “small”, efficient, or compact.
The compact-ness of intimacy comes from the compression of typical horizontality of the average domestic condition- where wider is better…
Here, the zone of outdoor space in the “private” rear outdoor zone is equally important as the square footage inside the dwelling…
the bottom image is an unpublished working hand model of the Mobile Gatherspace