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SCI-Arc (Vertical Studio,Fall 2015)
“Studies in Factish Architecture: Ventilation Tower, Holland Tunnel, NYC.”
critic: Ferda KOLATAN.
teaching assistant: Rachael McCALL.

In this design studio the term factish (borrowed from Bruno Latour) was utilized to generate an architecture that deliberately blurs the lines between facts, fiction, and fetish. . . .

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SCI-Arc
advisor: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rachael McCALL: Aiming for boundless and edgeless mass, Frayed & Polished challenges the legibility of edges, figures & silhouettes by fraying edges and working with different gradients of polish. . . .

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SCI-Arc
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO & Ivan BERNAL.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rachael McCALL: Sitting beside the Secession Hall in Vienna, the project is a tower house and studio for an artist in residence.

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SCI-Arc
critics: Hernan DIAZ ALONSO & Ivan BERNAL.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rachael McCALL: “The Disappearing Mass” works on the problem of edgeless form and undefined mass through distortion, ripples, wrinkles and striation overlapping in different directions. . . .

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