Spring 2014, UC Berkeley | Instructor: Rudabeh Pakravan
The city is laid out in one way, but how the human eye sees it is another. This project is an investigation of human perception of the city.
The urban condition allows multiple ways of seeing the city, the scale, density, and size of city elements create a variety of perspectives, distortions, and solid-void conditions.
A distorted cube as a representation of the perspectively distorted city.
The form of the distorted cube allows me to start investigating different ways of diverting perspectives. It allows me to look at human perception of the city as a series of solid-void conditions. Voids appear in between misaligned solids, which start to act as view/path diverters.
Limiting the distortion by the site condition, which represented by a slanted bounding box, a base form of my project is generated, where the exterior relates back to the “orthogonal view of the city”, while the interior becomes a representation of diverted perspectives depicted by a set of solids and voids.
In the architectural space, as one enters from the street corning, a series of "forks" diverts the perspectives and spaces, leading one's way to different programs. Elements in the interior are all representations of distorted perception.
Double Distortion
