ARCH 701-206

Fuzzy Aggregate: Speculations on New Forms of Mix-Use

The studio will center on the tension between multiple, discrete, even disparate parts or elements and indeterminately vague and even mysterious fuzzy aggregates. The impossibility to unify parts with whole, or the necessity of many wholes will be the unresolved questions posed by the studio. Rather than only understanding parts as essential, we will also imagine them as physical agents within both architectural volumes and surfaces. These two large and maybe opposing tendencies will arise in the studio, and will work either in parallel, against or in complete disregard of each other.