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THE KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE

Type:
Artist Collaboration

Role:
Design, Fabrication

With:
Christine Davis

Date:
2016


The Canadian artist Christine Davis asked me to design a structure to house The Knowledge of Life: Recto. The work is a series of 72 collaged tablets. The collages are a disruptive alteration of Oliver Byrne’s famous 1847 edition of Euclid’s Geometries.

In response to the work, I designed a folding screen that subverts traditional rail and stile joinery. The collages are mounted to tablets that become the opposite of traditional floating panel in a door or window assembly.

A simple passive hinge allows complex folded relationships between the various frames. The hinge nonetheless required some very challengfing joinery.

The complete structure has 48 subframes housed in 24 outer frames, forming a recombinant, transformative architecture object.



01. installation view

02. installation view


03. installation view


04. prototype


05. prototype detail


06. prototype detail


07. prototype arrangement


08. prototype detail


09. prototype arrangement


10. prototype detail


11. hinge study

11. hinge study


01. conceptual plan
02. concept sketch 03. concept sketch


04. elevation and plan


05. hinge detail


06. knolled parts


07. perspective sketch