FUERZA NATURAL

Veering off from the well-lit roads of abstraction, this studio explored the dark back alleys of literality. A neglected principle of interpretation and production, literality will be assumed as the guiding principle of our projects.

In contrast to a typology, a species constantly mutates. A species needs a lineage—it comes from other things. Where others use words like “typology,” we will use words like “species.” While others look for categories, we will look for metamorphosis. This studio mutated known architecture and will shamelessly exploit its clichés by staying literal to turn clichés into new clichés and privilege a permanent state of the present. 

In order to achieve that, I have put together skulls, koi fish, and windows by deforming the skulls to utilize as a bond and keeping the fish and windows literal.  The skull was deformed by the curvature and movement of the fish and orthogonal of the windows.  This infrastructure serves as a fish farm in Rosario, Argentina, questioning the cliche and literal by bringing the aquaculture fish to above the ground level. While more people are moving to the city from its suburb site, this fish farm questions its user group as well.  Is it human? or is it fish? 

The idea of this is to familiarize the objects as a whole by multiplying and staying literal to create a new cliche, which is revealed in the renderings and also fish themselves.