#OODFAÇADES
#ODDFACADES delves deep into the seemingly contemporary taboo of Victorian forms and aesthetics that are very much endeared to the bay area. These forms and materials are so beloved by broader culture that they are encoded into planning and preservation codes. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Victorian façade. Of particular interest, this project addresses these brightly colored, ornamented, and compositionally odd facades.
Elevation
The façade acts as a surrogate through which to speculate on broader cultural and political issues of contemporary relevance.
This project Focuses on the relationship between the house and the city, the Victorian and San Francisco, domesticity and the public realm.
Floorplan
Since the Renaissance and reiterated in modernism, levels have been understood as an extension of the ground the house sits on, or as an element that elevate one to a higher cultural reveal. Clement Greenberg presents this as an Avant-Garde idea, “Superior consciousness of culture, history, and criticism to society.”
In this project the levels become part of the provisional landscape that negotiate the disparity of the apparent contradictions we find in San Francisco, socially, politically, and economically.
This Victorian Darling is carved with renditions of the three primitive societies that de’Quincy once defined as: the wooden hut, the tent, the cave, found within and on the levels.
The project questions what kinds of societies occupy this Victorian Darling.
This Darling presents itself as public space, the Odd Facade is the landscape it creates.
Exploded axonometric