Prefab China 07: Sebastian Misiurek + Alex Drabyk + Ivan Delgado
Infinite Turbulence: Between the Foreign and the Familiar
The phrase “infinite turbulence” characterizes both our experience in China and the endless chaotic field produced by linguistic, cultural, and spatial discontinuities. Processing software helps to establish a stochastic modeling technique which functions as an analog to the radical unpredictability of the lived experience. The resultant mappings offer opportunities to quantify the chaos associated with being thrust into a foreign environment, and to translate the effects into spatial prototypes. The typology of a folded plate acts as a base which then undergoes a series of morphological transformations to produce various nesting strategies. The desire for continuity becomes a challenge to create a new, stable ground of exchange. Continuous paths of movement and habitation initiate specific rule-sets which in turn lead to the development of an aggregated field of components. Modules rotate and dilate in section, trans-forming into figure-eights, which together become the formal framework for the project. With the initial concept of alienation and the constraints of the existing site (on Pratt’s campus in New York City), the project aims to balance continuity and difference, and allows for a variety of conditions that render the space at once uncomfortably foreign and enticingly familiar.
image by Kim Keever
image by Kim Keever
image by Kim Keever
image by Kim Keever
image by Kim Keever
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