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4 | LIVING WINTER 09

POINT CLOUDS

Architect Jimenez Lai explores realities in architecture and urbanism through his graphic novels that often become physical realities. In this case, the initial graphic story becomes an installation in Chicago, a system with a set of standard modules and simple geometric rules lnked a with a series of connection points. When force is applied to one rotary joint, the entire structure responds with further geometrical transformations. As in the graphic novel, dimensions has various meanings in the many ways our bodies may instinctively inform actions such as lean, sit, grab, skip or pull.

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Contents

01. LIVING FACTS
02. SURVIVOR MARACAIBO
03. ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
04. SELLING LIFESTYLE
05. A FRAME OF MIND
06. LIVING IN CABRINI
07. PLACES, NOT SPACES
08. POINT CLOUDS

CASE STUDY #1. NAKAGIN CAPSULE
CASE STUDY #2. WALDEN 7
CASE STUDY #3. THE UFO HOUSES
CASE STUDY #4. THE WHALE
CASE STUDY #5. LINKED HYBRID

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