Projects

Human Systems of a Structure

Madison Pomarico
Paola Pomarico

Ehibitions:
‘Concept 2021’ CICA Museum Seoul, KR

2020

An Environment that is not found, but designed, is distinct by being a product of humans; therefore it is equally as subject to natural, physical occurences as humanity is itself.

What intrinsic human phenomena can be observed by designing a hypothetical, material space, isolated from external variables? What distinguishes the way human beings interact with, and unmistakably impact a space that is not discovered, but conceived?

Human Systems of a Structure is a body of research which studies the physical interface between the material composition of a designed environment or ‘structure’, and the human interaction that facilitates the functionality of that structure. The work demonstrates how somatic movement instigates reactive material displacement of an architectural form; in turn, causing reactive behavior within the body. This recursive process results in exponential progression of both effort in physicality, and structural deterioration.

'Human Systems of a Structure - 16ft Span’ is a video installation which displays documentation of the material research conducted throughout twenty-two individual filming sessions featuring multiple performers. As a structure, the 16ft Span was designed to create spatial boundaries that delineate where interaction is functionally enabled, and physically limited. Performers physically utilizing the Span’s functionality, develop cyclical patterns of movement described by the structure’s inherent trajectory. In conjunction with the form’s ability to dictate where movement can and cannot traverse through space, its reactive, material characteristics instigate the body to recover from material fallout such as: cracking, shearing, sliding and crumbling - all products of deformation. The cumulative deterioration of the span culminates in developmental change; becoming evidential proof that this process is not one of perpetual destruction, but of continuous transformation.

16ft Span Design

The 2ft Cube: a smaller-scale branch of research & development from within the project; created to test levels of permanence and impermanance of various material compositions.

2ft Cube Design

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