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Lex Chen

Lex Chen

NY

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Sleepless Leviathan

The project examines the intersection between spaces of leisure/recreation and data center. As the need for data infrastructure increase, it’s time to transform the conventional impression of dullness, inaccessibility, utilitarianization into that of fun, interaction, and multifunctionality. ‘Machinic Chimeras’ -- perceives architectural form as parts of a larger, self-organizing, adapting, material process. Our methodology begins with reconsidering the ‘ composite hybridity’ of the Chimera, as a generative point of departure to re-conceptualize machinic and leisure spaces.. “Chimeras are synthetic –produced through synthesis , a combination of parts forming an entity rather than artificial– a copy from the authentic model defined by its opposition to the original. Their unique nature positions chimeras in radical opposition to an imitation or a fake. Even though the terms “synthetic” and “artificial” are casually used interchangeably, there is a difference in the precise ways they refer to “unnatural ” or “manufactured” phenomena. The composite hybridity within chimeras makes that difference evident.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: New York, NY, US
My Role: Designing, Modeling, Rendering, Drawing
Additional Credits: Riki Han (Designing, Modeling, Rendering, Drawing)

 
Form Inpiration
Form Inpiration
Concept Illustration
Concept Illustration
Program Inventory
Program Inventory
Circulation Illustration
Circulation Illustration
Plan and Elevation
Plan and Elevation
Plan and Elevation
Plan and Elevation
Longitudinal Section and Interior rendering
Longitudinal Section and Interior rendering
Transversal Section and Elevation
Transversal Section and Elevation
Transversal Section
Transversal Section
Rendering
Rendering
Rendering
Rendering
Rendering
Rendering
Section
Section
Structural Hierarchy
Structural Hierarchy
Section and Roof Detail
Section and Roof Detail
Typical Facade Detail
Typical Facade Detail
Physical Model
Physical Model
Physical Model
Physical Model
Physical Model
Physical Model