DIFFICULT WHOLES

This work uses Robert Venturi’s description of the ‘difficult whole‘ as its laungching point:

“The difficult whole in an architecture of complexity and contradiction includes multiplicity and diversity of elements in relationships that are inconsistent or among the weaker kinds perceptually...Parts can be more or less whole in themselves, or, to put it another way, in greater or lesser degree they can be fragments of a greater whole"

To produce these assemblages, three initial figures were extracted from Piranesi’s Campo Marzio drawing and made 3-Dimmensional through a series of boolean operations. They were then arranged together in a way that considered their spacing and physical connection. Using projected color, the assemblage further amplifies its moments of interference between part and whole to produce new parts and spatial effects. The different iterations shown exemplify how new linkages can be forged between figures through color, material, and texture without physically merging the figures together.