With these animations, I have taken iconic, modernist houses and made them into stage sets for natural disasters. The aestheic of the design is contrasted with the power of nature. The houses are transformed. The viewer’s eye is cast within this experience, one that could never be seen in this way in real time.
Case Study No. 21, 2011
A modernist house, designed by Pierre Koenig, has been rebuilt on an island. The waters rise, and the house, its furnishings, and a plaster frog, slowly make their way out to sea.
Ronchamp, 2010
Le Corbusier's Ronchamp Cathedral gets transformed in a mudslide.
Fallingwater, 2009
An earthquake rattles Fallingwater and its platforms fall into the riverbed below. Structures grow out of the broken bits. They replicate, creating a nanoarchitecture. The forms branch out into the landscape imitating its forms. They contain the DNA of the original building which fitted seamlessly into the site.
The Farnsworth House Flood, 2008
Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House sits along a river in a flood plane in Plano, Illinois. In this animation, the river rises.
