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The duplicitous nature of this project, conceived through a multiplicity of interior and exterior conditions, attempts to create spatial and constructional uncertainties that call to question the distinction between the digital and analog within architectural applications. Through the application of paper pulp to a routed surface, the surface definitions inherent in the mold are masked by the pulp's natural tendency to blur detail. From the exterior, the artifacts of fabrication are visually lost. Questions of construction reemerge, however, after the imposition of a strong hard edge to the project, the pathway. The precision and detail of the pathway, generated as a section cut, gives thickness to an otherwise planar project. It acts visually as the surface's interior while simultaneously cultivating the discrepancies between its own digital construction within its "random" frame. While the overall ceiling reveals little of its origins, it isn't until one investigates further into the surface fissures that the pathway as an interior is broken down. Unlike the exterior, the real interior of the project still bears the marks of fabrication. Known as the "moments of reveal", the fissures expose a second interior condition where it begins to interact in a way that triggers confusion and blur the distinction between the exterior and the double layer of interiors.

Ceiling in Curated Space

Full Construction Exploded Axon

Occupied Ceiling

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