sliding

how could different living programmes combine/recombine for different inhabitants?

In developing systems for a new typology for housing, a precedent made me — as it made so many others before me — curious: walden7 by Ricardo Bofill of Bofill Taller de Architectura (1975). With building plans provided by Bofill Taller de Architectura, In reviewing these building plans, I noticed that the plans were made of programmed spaces that planometrically oscillate; sliding, colliding, recombinating into interesting new programmes and new activities that facilitate socializing and gathering.

To show these possibilities, I worked with my teammates on designing and making something of a tectonic ‘abacus’, whereby people could play with the modules/modularity of different levels to see how many different programmes or activities they could imagine.

Blessed are collaborators: Hao Chang, Yuan Li, and Helen Winter.