Promiscuous Geometries

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—shadows 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—a 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— no building, or photo of building, would be complete without them—they have typically been used in characteristically experiential terms, as exemplified in Jun’ichirō 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.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.96

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0