N.O.R.M.
Exists as an architecture emergent in three scores. It is at once an architecture of realities (both withdrawn and revealed), an architecture of episodes (mediating among atmospheres and environments), and an architecture of representation (that is being-ness and unto-itself-ness).
LOCATION
Queens, New York
PROGRAM
Cultural, Mixed-Use
YEAR
2018
CLIENT
Socrates Sculpture Park
STATUS
Study




— in saecula saeculorum —
Defined through the polemic of architectural character, not as metaphor but as concrete reality. Made explicit through new technology and media, N.O.R.M. seeks to bridge the divide between that which is real and that which is fiction.



Material Regimes





N.O.R.M. Character N°1 — Withdrawn
N.O.R.M. shifts from a building that not only appears to be animate and vital, but is truly sensate; crossing perhaps into a surrealist realm.
Public gallery spaces weave between non-normative worlds, creating a tension between human occupiable space and non-occupiable transcendent worlds. This circumstance compelled the development of a speculative, human distribution system which relies on peristaltic contraction as the basis for future mobility within buildings and their immediate surroundings.



N.O.R.M. Character N°2 — Revealed
When doing art direction you want to cover all the areas from being clever and when choosing colors or creating schemes for your new amazing project.
The Wire is the new seat and there are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke when the river arrives.





Credits
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category. Academic, Building
project team. Andrew Matia & Andrew Homick
where. PennDesign Core 602
critic. Simon Kim