Misfit Objects
Fat Guy in a Little Coat
North America - United States - Philadelphia
Discipline: Architecture
Categories: cultural,large
Designer(s): Eric Wong, Michael Kipfer
University of Pennsylvania
Faculty of Architecture
Tutor(s): Tom Wiscombe, Ryan Macyauski
Our project is executed with two chunky and strong figures: a jack and a slightly manipulated cube. When squished into and out of each other (“misfit”) and with the addition of an interior liner, these objects allow us to achieve vast interiorities and surprising interstitial spaces, all contained within a strong silhouette. In order to lend an overall visual coherency to the project, we employed the operations of overlapping, nestling, and slicing. Slicing, in particular, was pivotal in re-defining a clean exterior silhouette. It also allowed us to open up the large purple space, which is defined by the imprint of the jack on the liner. In other areas, the jack’s profile can be read squishing against the cube from inside, always maintaining its own profile, and in other areas it is fully exposed. Elsewhere inside, the voids of nestled jacks squishing out and in give us spaces defined by the imprint of an object no longer present. The result is an entirely new object that is comprised of several objects in existing in dialogue and in tension -- not totally unified, yet not entirely discrete.