Title_Two Banks Type_Project Scale_100,000 ft2 Location_Washington, DC/Fort Worth Date_2017
This thesis recognizes two paradigms as polar conditions in the description of poché: the labyrinth and the pyramid. The former manifests as absolute surface – a scrolling, involuted interior to which one is always tangent. The latter is a condition of absolute thickness—where matter divides and volumes suspend.
In refutation of the 20th century’s pursuit of efficiency and insulation in architectural form, this project searches for other myths. It claims that an architecture can contain multiplicities in its reading, that the boundary of an architectural object is one that is highly contextual. As such, architecture might begin to approach a methodology of measurement based on relativity, rather than empiricism—an architecture where the thickness of a wall separates more space than conceivable.










