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truth is what is v. truth is what was v. truth is that which will have been
hypothetical
built
This section includes speculative work—work that extends architectural agency into the realm of world-making in spatial thought.
If architecture as a building “constitutes a delayed reenactment of spontaneous spatial formations in the group body”1 then architecture as a thought would constitute an advanced translation and perhaps a rethinking of those very same spatial formations through architectural concepts.
“Christian Armenia” Complex
The project aimed to develop a master plan for a 679 ha site in Armenia, with a programming rationale focused on distributing active spaces for both fleeting and dwelling citizens.
To achieve this, the master planning concept drew on interiority from historic Armenian settlements, while a parametric model utilized the site’s topography to generate the curtain wall geometry.
Master Planning Concept.
Design Commision.
Independent Practice.
Armenia, 2020
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Evolving Skyscraper, Armenia *structural geodesics
The proposal’s morphotectonic architecture functions as a tool for non-architectural discursive intervention. It disrupts the apparent consensus within the symbolic order and shared imaginaries.
Experimental work for publications.
Armenia, 2009
The project was widely published in books, magazines, and numerous online publications across the United States, the EU, and Asia.
High-speed train station, California *horizontal diagrid Structure
The high-speed train station will structure the relationship and distribution of speed with its surrounding context, eventually changing the urban development pattern. The research is curating the points of diffusion into a single spatial layout, to script the urban programing in the vicinity.
Advanced Architectural Design Studio, Reiser+Umemoto, critics
Columbia University, GSAPP
New York, 2011
Memorial Proposition in Gyumri, Armenia
Research addendum, proposition to a project on collective memory. You can read more about the project at x-commons.com, link below.
Independent Practice.
New York, 2014
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