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Victoria E. Beach
The student developed a number of intersections conceived as isolated vignettes. The notion of intersection as a threshold offered the theme of doorways. The students studied the multiple arrangements of these and the multiple totalities these would conceive in differing combinations.
Andrew Pearson
House at a Disjunction. The student, Andrew Pearson, began with an image of a disjunction: a field of rectilinear pavers arranged in a grid disrupted by the sudden outcropping of a root. This constituted an intersection of geometries and orders; one abstract Cartesian the other organic and radial. The student studied this apparent disjunction to devise a strategy for reconciliation.
Peter S. Choi
The student developed a program for an architecture of excavation by unearthing the paradox that the act of excavation, the intersection of man with earth, inevitably implies that one not only "construct" downward but, as a consequence, upward, since the displaced material becomes assembled and amassed above the original datum. While integrating both aspects of this equation into the construction, the student developed a structure that "bridged" and inhabited this intersection.
Kevin Musumano
Dwelling at infinity
Andrew Reyniak
Common House. The student chose as his site an area situated along a ridge on Long Island formed as glacial moraine deposit. The house was conceived as a communal house with a walled court used form common use.
Nancy M. Sanders
The student, inspired by the iconographic analysis of a small oil painting done by her five-year-old next-door neighbor, chose suburbia as her site and developed a series of site-specific housing prototypes which promoted a re-inhabitation of the sub-urban grid as a physical construct.
Warren A. Techentin
The House of Six Windows. The six sides of a cube become programmatically defined as windows giving on to primary realms of experience of dwelling.
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Harvard GSD-Options Studio
Fall 1992
Studio Instructor
with Diane Lewis

HOUSE: BEYOND THE FREE PLAN/ INTERSECTIONS OF A STRUCTURAL GRID/STRUCTURE AS A FUSION OF FORM AND CONTENT.

AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND EXISTENCE:

Given:

1. Matrix of Phenomena:

Earth / Sky / Man / Light / Civilization / Horizon / Structure / Time / Matter / Points / Line / Plane / Volume

2. Some Potential Intersection:

Intersection of Man and Earth
Intersection of Man and Structure
Intersection of Man and Light
Intersection of Structure and Civilization
Intersection of Structure and Geography
Intersection of Structure and Light
Intersection of Structure and Earth
Intersection of Structure and Sky
Intersect Conscious with Landscape = Horizon
Intersection of Lines
Intersection of Planes
Intersection of Plane with Volume
Intersection of Time and Matter

Within the titles above are implicit conditions of scale, causality and order. The objective and subjective content of architectonics may be reduced to such a series of intersections drawn and constructed.

The work of this studio will be to determine a program for architectonic structure and spacitality/the house from a number of essential intersections. The text of the program will be the relation of the intersection elements; spatial location, geographic or urban position, relative size, and material. A set of drawings, corresponding working models, and writing will describe each intersection; a project history.