Funny Forms Final

The goal of this studio is to explore and develop a formal project which neither quits on looks, nor overcompensates for its brand insecurity through 'bodybuilding." The form may not be immediately recognizable as anything, in fact, it may even deny initial pleasure; neither spectacular nor regular, it may even assume a visual power much more pleasurable, and perhaps even more perplexing than the most gymnastic of architectural achievements. 

-Paul Preissner (studio brief paraphrased)

often, architecture takes itself way too seriously or overcompensates to the opposite extreme resulting in formal one-liners. this project attempt to find a formal language that can be funny but without jokes. it is the Steven Wright of architecture, you will either get it or you wont.

Funny Forms with Paul Preissner (MID-TERM)

The goal of this studio is to explore and develop a formal project which neither quits on looks, nor overcompensates for its brand insecurity through 'bodybuilding." The form may not be immediately recognizable as anything, in fact, it may even deny initial pleasure; neither spectacular nor regular, it may even assume a visual power much more pleasurable, and perhaps even more perplexing than the most gymnastic of architectural achievements. 

-Paul Preissner (studio brief paraphrased)

Selected Works 2012

Selected Works 2012 by Daniel Starcher | Make Your Own Book

Clumsy Form

examples of primitives from our research seminar with Paul Preissner.

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One Piece at a Time

Housing Studio Barcelona

The unique site for this housing project negotiates the edge between Barcelona's dense Gracia neighborhood to the west and the expansive L'Eixample to the east. A small park to the NW is the impetus for a pubic space of similar scale and proportion and a break in the building mass which allows for pedestrian traffic through the site. 

Typical Floor Plans

Unit Plans

Tech case study, Peris + Toral Arquitectes