Author(s): Xhulio Binjaku & Anne Graziano
Promiscuous Geometries is a set of ornamental objects created from shadows. This project looks to shadows as a medium for design. Shadows are a resultant of light obscured from a surface鈥攕hadows come after geometry. However, this project reverses that order and starts with shadows to make geometry. The resultant geometry is not a pre-rationalized form but found through a mixing of shadows鈥攁 shadowplay.The resulting geometry is surprising and ambiguous, we call it promiscuous, however closely tied to an understanding of geometry. While shadows are clearly important to architecture鈥 no building, or photo of building, would be complete without them鈥攖hey have typically been used in characteristically experiential terms, as exemplified in Jun鈥檌chir艒 Tanizaki 1933 essay In Praise of Shadows, while the shadows geometric capabilities have been underused. Promiscuous Geometries begins with shadows and uses anamorphic projection and Boolean operations to produce a set of 3D geometries.
Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca
ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0