Thesis: Kyle Troyer
The Informal Detail: Clumsy Craft and Odd Tectonics
This thesis attempts to theorize the architectural detail as a point of departure for the design process. It ascribes value to informality and in turn produces an aesthetic of looseness and precarity that devalues conventional architectural order in favor of material intensity and local, object-to-object relationships.
The following project revolves much of its conversation around craft and making, and how certain operations and procedures throughout this process can produce an aesthetic. While the project capitalizes on the usage of the terms clumsy and odd, these two aesthetic categories are meant to be interrogated on a technical level to guide material explorations as well as uncommon spatial and organizational principles; the project is less interested in their ability to provoke feeling and affect. The thesis explores the design of a technique rather than a finished building. In the act of designing through an informal detail, the resultant architecture can become clumsy and odd.
While the conventional architectural detail operates on a deep appreciation of material culture and history, this thesis emphasizes the use of humble materials in their raw and unpolished forms in a way that differs from their common, post-processed state to produce informal details that lead to clumsy craft. Likewise, while the conventional architectural detail normalizes precision to institute value in how systems and their components come together, this thesis leverages the informality of details to establish organization that lacks dexterity and generates precarious assemblages that lead to odd tectonics. The resultant combinatory logic of clumsy craft and odd tectonics claims value in a contemporary aesthetic that questions traditional understandings of material culture and architectural organizational strategies.
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