2018-19: Material World
Diploma 12 is interested in instrumenting change through the strategic implementation of architectural practice. Using the design of strategically deployed events as a catalyst, we will build material worlds of our own that are carefully crafted for future communities, creating visionary architectural models that reflect their precise ideals and dreams.
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InterClone Hotel, Diller + Scofidio, 1997 (project). An advertising campaign for a fictional international hotel chain that proposes ways to create the illusion of diversity via design while maintaining a reassuring sameness wherever one travels in the world. This illusion is designed through: color palettes, motifs, furnishing, flooring, leasure, location, labor, growth index, advisory.
“while diversity inevitably collapses into the mono-cultural landscape, tourism races to reconstruct it back to maintain tourism and economic sustenance” DS+R