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The Transitory Dwelling explores the notion of duality within Goethe’s life and work through a spatial environment derived from poetic rhythm. A partially extruded plan of Goethe’s childhood house, a tracing of the past, provides grounding for ‘new’ forms. A re-configuring of this trace occurs through the intervention of the ‘new’, altering the original spatial arrangement. The primary spatial forms occurring along the x-axis and the y-axis were developed using numerical values assigned to the following patterns. These provided the common structure underlying much of Goethe's poetry, the hexameter: x-axis
> - u u / - u u / - | | u u / - u u / - u u / - x This pattern, when viewed from a shifting point to a fixed focal point [interior < > exterior] reveals a transition from a closed or solid envelope to glimpses, revealing the interior and exterior as the eye shifts. Functioning as a transitory dwelling for travelers, the interior programme seeks to define spatial ‘zones’ within the z-axis by casting solid forms within the boundaries of the extruded walls from the childhood house and the intersection of forms on the x and y axes. |