Over the course of the 72 hours, the architectural sensibilities of the nine mentor-led teams emerged, demonstrating the versatility that the nine-square problem previously offered as an abstract spatial problem, a project on tectonics and an indexing of form, and, with this project, as an infrastructure for an event. — news.syr.edu
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I can't believe they're still doing the nine square excersize. Speed up the film, throw some slowly builiding (string) classical music, and tada!!! You have nine little squares filled with colorless stuff.
Ha, Thayer I was going to comment asking other people to explain the nine-square projects they did while they were in school!
The one I did was with Dan Hoffman while he was a visiting professor at U of Michigan. We built the nine square platform, 36" grid, then each square in plan was given a the material quality of either earth, air, fire, or water, along with a perceptual qualifier of hot/cold, light/dark, or absorptive/reflective. Then the wall had to mediate between those two conditions. I built a wall between dark earth and hot air, so of course I did adobe. But it was adobe laid up like plaster on wood and twine wattle and daub, with the air side being the squished-through forms of the clay. Very indexical sign, very haptic.
Who else has done a nine-square project? Let's hear them!
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