Coursework_California College of the Arts_MArch_Fall 2016
Instructors_Thom Faulders, Brian Price

An experiment against the rightness of technological form, STUD confronts the ability of technology to conceptualize infinitely precise spatial geometry and translate them identically into physical form.

Exaggerating the out of true nature of dimensional lumber, STUD challenges the use of typical framing members to define precise form. Here, the perfectionist nine square grid is defined by standard sixteen inch on center two by four wall studs organized perfectly by the virtues of precise technological fabrication. This rightness is then elevated as a truly autonomous plane unaffected by the imperfections of ground conditions. However; the nature of boards to twist and bend away from the precise order of their placement in plan redefines the formal logic of the space as authored by the technological truth. Out of the tangle develops openings and circulation between rooms, ambiguity in the boundary line of each square plan, new pockets of space within the poche between rooms, and certainly a phenomenological visual effect that opposes our desire to finish over the framing members.