Functioning Disorder : Site Figure 06

If you don’t have an understanding of the conventional language of architecture that allows you to immediately read a plan or section, they can be quite opaque. Rather than continue working within and abiding by the conventions of architecture, the project takes this misunderstanding as an opportunity to imagine what it would be like to break the notation and sign of architecture while playfully misreading the orthographic sequence, more specifically in plan. The process becomes then a source, for misinterpretation and the production of a field of unexpected relationships.
My project is a research center for brain science within a university campus located in Minneapolis. Taking cues from the generative processes of collage and hand-drawing, it entangles the typologies of urban infill and civic space. The project is dispersed into six areas throughout the campus, and recognized as a broken yet stable building complex made up of separate self-referential figures.