Intimacy – Carlo Mollino

::Winter 2008 Advanced Topic Studio – Hirsutism – On the ReThatched Roof for Contemporary Architecture::

“The house is a shell that must allow every organism a free and clearly differentiated individual life.”

For Mollino this was a deep-rooted conviction, “an innate approach to being and acting.”

The vernacular shed (shell) is a classic architectural symbol; “it is the perfect house that grows in harmony with the body that inhabits it […] The subject of human reverie, the shell has personified the unity of concepts such as invention and need, fantasy an repetition, exception and law, chance and geometry. In the dialectics of the viable and the hidden, it has symbolized the dualism of human nature, the body and soul.”

Awards:   Project exhibited at the UCLA “Fall Currents” Exhibition
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Year:  winter 2008
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Course:  M.Arch II, UCLA – Advanced Topic  Studio:
Hirsutism – On the ReThatched Roof for Contemporary Architecture
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Location:  not specified
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Description: primitive hut with sleeping and living area
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Instructor:  Prof. Jason Payne
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Students:  Laura Pedata; Dionicio Valdez; Danny Rentsch
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Activities:  design; drawings; 3d model+rendering; physical model;
research on thatching and weaving techniques
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