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Thick
An exhibition in sections
Thick is a research project and exhibition that explores material thickness as an active site of investigation. The project is the instantiation of an ongoing research project around the relationship between architectural instruments and architectural production. The research explores how thickness is itself a “deep” structure of design within the discursive spaces of descriptive geometry, digital tooling, material fabrication and construction. The project culminates with a two-month exhibition in the SCI-Arc gallery space, featuring new work by Maxi Spina and Jia Gu.
The exhibition is spatial, operating within / between / through the literal walls of the gallery, as well as operational, producing a collection of fragments that explores the section as an operative act through which figuration and form emerge. Coupled with a catalogue and public discussion, the exhibition expands on the problems of material thickness through the topic of sections, ruins, fragments, constructions, figurations, simultaneity, and representation.
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THICK
AN EXHIBITION
IN
SECTIONS
EXHIBITION
The work explores the history and habits of representing an invisible condition of architecture: material thickness.
The exhibition in the SCI-Arc gallery produces a collection of fragments that explore the section as an operative act through which figuration and form emerge.
Thickness in this project is a decoy for "the real," for a set of questions posed around the tensions between architectural representation and architectural construction, about the translation between the two.
The objects, reminiscent of Auguste Choisy’s famous isometric and oblique drawings, combine plan, section and elevation into a single vantage view.
THICK
PROJECT TYPE
Exhibition
STATUS
Built, 2017
EXHIBITION DESIGN
Maxi Spina, Spinagu
Jia Gu, Spinagu
FABRICATION COORDINATORS
Ravyn Crabtree
Rishab Jain
SCI-ARC STUDENT WORKSHOP
Cheryl Linn
Saul Kim
Marianna Girgenti
Leo Liu
Luiza De Souza
Nicholas Perseo
Yunki Cheung
Bianca Hernandez
Cindy Liu
Adriane Yi
Rebecca Wiscombe
Daniel Arismendys Taveras-Hernandez
Siddardha Chalamala
Melissa Alvarez
Borja Lopez Calvino
German Diaz
Anna Bahudian
Justin Elliot
William Chen
Sammi Liang
Tucker van Leuwen-Hall
SCI-ARC FABRICATION SHOP
Brandon Youndt
Rodney Rojas
Josh Wallin
Hector Solis
ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE
Jared White, Eastbridge Studio
PHOTOGRAPHY
Joshua White Photography
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Hernan Diaz Alonso, Stephanie Atlan, and Kate Merritt
This project is made possible with the generous support of the GRAHAM FOUNDATION and FORMICA