Architectural Organization: The Curation of Multiples

“Finding the proper place for the improper quantity of things.” – Sylvia Lavin

Graduate Thesis Project 2013-2014

Project Abstract __

 

The organization of multiple objects may seem like commonplace within interior spaces, but are the means in which these objects are curated actually being considered? Architecture may facilitate the eventual implementation of organization, but whether it is thought about in the original design is arguable. Furthermore is there a way to focus on themes of organization that work better or worse in certain architectural interiors? And are there new forms of organizing multiples that have not been fully realized?

 

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This thesis analyzes architectural organization of multiple objects through determined binaries. These binaries serve as the jumping off point to form matrices of potential forms of organization. A ternary of programs [Libraries, Museums, and Retail Spaces] serve as the basis for how these binaries organize themselves alone, in pairs, or as trios. Analysis of these conglomerates leads to studies of how they place themselves in architectural interiors currently, if at all. Determining if these forms of organization prove successful, or if these forms of organization have yet to be realized, becomes the topic of study through the diagramming and defining of the conglomerates. If these forms are not yet realized the focus moves to how they can be designed, or what potentials they give the architectural interior. Through diagrams, drawings, and mock-ups, these instances are then curated themselves in an array of interior architectural organizations. The awareness and benefits of these forms of organization becomes the value within the project. The knowledge and recognition of these means of curation allows for the design potentials of interior spaces to move forward while this new-found knowledge allows for the discovered conglomerates to be thought about actuated into reality.

Clutter

Tectonic System Analysis & Comparison

Sorting System Analysis & Comparison

Pathological Characters Analysis & Comparison

Accumulation v. Collection Binary Diagram

Aesthetic v. Utility Binary Diagram

Browsing v. Directional Binary Diagram

Preliminary Project Outline

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