JEFF HALSTEAD & PEDER BRAND
Downtown Los Angeles
Instructor: Elena Manferdini
This project is based on the threshold of legibility of the figure specifically when it gives up being a being and becomes architecture. It does this by maintaining characteristics in what can be described as flesh-like and bodily but distinctively architectural. The formal approach was captured in two ways.
The exterior is through pressing skin onto a flat surface, and the interior is made of the resulting leftover wrinkled and squished skin like form. The soft and supple qualities of skin were further exploited with the superimposed lighting effects. The lighting technique withdrew and imbued emphasis on the abrupt change of pressed and squished flesh.
