philadelphia PENNSLYVANIA
University of Pennsylvania
Critic: Andrew SAUNDERS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Caleb EHLY: The profile exists in unison with that of the object, it defines articulation of control and existence. By enacting an investigation of extraction and mining of architectural tropes, the discovery of profiles synonymous with context and site.
- Caleb EHLY, “Parkside Relief.”, Model Photo
- Caleb EHLY, “Parkside Relief.”, Model Photo
- Caleb EHLY, “Parkside Relief.”, Perspective
- Caleb EHLY, “Parkside Relief.”, Perspective
Profiles of the vernacular present themselves and in doing so, a new part to whole emerges. Through this methodology, new ways to interrogate form and aesthetics develop. The collaboration of non-human agents in this project acts as a finical means to generate capital for the branch library while also aging the building to a whimsical state that engenders estranged conditions of rurality. This project uses the profile in unison with the qualities of relief to generate monolithic forms that become broken down by material properties that confront the aesthetics and formal qualities that persist beyond the perceived.
