making the difficult look easy...

I'm going to post ideas specific to individual projects as well as the collective, since I think everyone might benefit from looking at all of it.

Aaron- I’ve given your proposal a little thought and have a suggestion. I think the incongruency between the two forms has to do with one being orthogonal and the other being triangular. I think you ought to consider a triangular frame and see if that solves some of your problems while also making the two forms more consistent in language. I also think a triangular form can often time take on more complexity than an orthogonal one. A lot of the tessellation that you see in very current work is really a product of a triangular language.

Take a look at the project above. This is from the Architecture’s 1999 Progressive Awards issue, but I feel it’s still very relevant. The form in this case is simply the roof, but you can see how the rotation along one axis really establishes some interesting relationships with adjacent walls and the space below and above. And it’s all done with a single frame, just rotated. Perhaps you can explore more gradual rotations in some areas and more accelerated rotations in others. In other words, instead of rotating just, say 3 degrees, it varies in some areas to accommodate program and dissolution into the other form.

One last thing, I looked at Cohen’s work and the materiality is very different (almost all concrete) and therefore not as helpful as I thought. I will keep looking for more relevant examples.