Jumpcut
Fall 2021
Prof. Elle Gerdeman
Siteless
Designed to mediate between two given sections, this project capitalizes on the way that minute changes to the tolerance of typical two-by construction can be exploited to create large scale changes tectonically. The four slight discrepancies in wall construction; too short, too tall, too wide, too skinny; allows for what would have otherwise been a normative rectilinear building to become a crumpled structure collecting the two disparate given sections.
To further call attention to the strange but banal construction of the walls, the typical gypsum board covering is also estrange, jumping from interior to exterior and even occasionally disappearing all together, overexposing the interior wall structure. The project hyperbolizes and calls attention to questions of typical construction and potential misalignments in the slightest variance of tolerance.
Drawings showing the slight discrepancies in wall construction.