| Number: | 003 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Name: | House for an Ambassador |
| Location: | Princeton University |
| Type: | Graduate Thesis, Exhibition |
| Project Team: | Gillian Shaffer |
Vision has always been among the structuring topoi of architecture as a discipline; however, the relationship of vision to the built environment is being rapidly disrupted by digital technologies. In an era of smartphone cameras, satellites and Google Earth, image recognition algorithms, and new spectral ranges of vision, unfamiliar temporal and spatial relationships are being created that do not correspond to human cognition. Technology now mediates the visibility of buildings, and space has become reducible to data. The Ambassador’s House is a kind of limit condition to test the architectural implications of new forms of vision, where architectural aesthetics themselves become a form of camouflage. The resulting redefinition of what it means for a building to “be seen,” and the implications for building typologies and spatial organizations more generally. The influence of new technologies is characterized by its ubiquity: we all live digitally-mediated lives, feeding data -- visual and otherwise -- to the machines around us. Exhibited in Aesthetics of Prosthetics, Siegel Gallery, New York City and Nine Constructionists, Van der Plas Gallery, New York City. Watch Video, https://vimeo.com/411542051
See Research, https://vimeo.com/412957755
