college station TEXAS

studio description: higher affect
high-rises in the era of sensation

“sensation is what determines instinct at a particular moment, just as instinct is the passage from one sensation to another, the search for the “best” sensation (not the most agreeable, but the one that fills the flesh at a particular moment of its descent, contraction, or dilation).”
gilles deleuze “the logic of sensation”

we live a time of experimentation, of thinking of ways architecture affect us now and in the future. how does architecture feel?

image: emau VEGA

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college station TEXAS

gabrielESQUIVEL:“life is nothing but instability and disequilibrium… a swelling tumult continuously on the verge of explosion.” ~ georges bataille

“swell” emerged from the posture of presenting an argument emerging from architecture itself. is it possible to talk about architecture from its own discourse? this project fits within the continuum of architecture through references from works of the classics to early modernists. a significant part of the research revolved around the discussion of classical ornamentation: a layer of architecturalization that was perhaps best articulated by the early modernist louis sullivan as seen in his intricate, highly articulated guaranty bank corner to cornice detailing.

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college station TEXAS

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

ayaka ONO: the project is to design the current easterwood airport in college station, texas with integrating the existing building and new design. and the aim of this project is to create a blending modern airport which shows turbulence. my idea came from a bernini sculpture and some biological materials. the art offered an abstraction or configuration which i could apply to my design. the analog process was done with gelatin and some paints materials.

texas a&m university
instructor: gabrielESQUIVEL

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columbus OHIO

team: gabriel ESQUIVEL, dan STARCHER, tim COUSINO , terry LERNER, jessica DAY

the original premise of the studio was to develop a performative surface using light as the main inspiration. my studio took a different approach and we began to investigate the idea of producing an emotional surface. this lead to the idea of investigating different effects try to have an ontological change from an architecture of thinking and process to an architecture of feeling. the response was to create a series of atmospheric installations.

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columbus OHIO

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

gabriel ESQUIVEL: The concept behind this project started by creating a cartoon character that has an overwhelming dream of being entrapped by a strange organism. The group started by looking at natural atmospheres of decay and shadows, like roots taking over ruins, or the ideas of some pattern taking over a surface this guided the research to look into architectural precedents that produced similar effects like the tassel hotel by victor horta where the geometry game of the two dimensional ornament of the wall that looks like a shadow and the three dimensional ornamentation of the stair rail.

team: gabriel ESQUIVEL, jon BLISTAN, ryan WHITBY, steve CHRISTY, mike GRIESER

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columbus OHIO

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

gabriel ESQUIVEL: malbec is about a splashing sensation. it is argued as a relief or rusticated surface. the piece was commissioned as digital storefront for the neighborhood design center, new possibilities exhibition. urban arts space. ohio state university.

design team: gabriel ESQUIVEL, chris GASSAWAY

fabrication team: matt RICHARDSON, ky COFFMAN, jeff QUANTZ

fabrication consultant: cody DAVIS

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