Aggregation of Allegories

Abstract

In our lives, certain geometric spaces hold profound meaning. For instance, a room with a sloped floor instantly evokes cinematic or theatrical connotations. We instinctively adjust our orientation, distinguishing between the viewing area and the observed end. Another example is the familiar gabled house shape, synonymous with the concept of home. These geometric spaces act as signs, inherently laden with meaning and associations. In contrast to traditional postmodernist and deconstructionist abstracting signs as sculptural objects, which are interpreted externally, what if spatial signs could also be multiplied and abstracted as well? This thesis seeks to put a common set of programs into two aggregations of shapes in two contexts. The programs will include both living and screening, corresponding to the gable and the trapezoid shape. Yet all the programs are crammed into the trapezoids when they are in the city, and into the gables when they are in the rural. The programs are warped by contextual situations, and the geometries are then warped by the programs. The thesis endeavors to develop a design methodology that is geometrically both multiplicative and divisional, which ensures architectural signs remain consistently intelligible from both external and internal perspectives. By using this pair of buildings as a foundation, the thesis aspires to propose a method for infusing programs with significance and redefining programmatic relationships through the spatial sign.