Typollogy 1

Assignment 2 - Mystery Play!

"DIAGRAMMATIC POTENCY OF THE “NINE SQUARE GRID IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN"

- Any line drawn on a sheet of paper, or the simplest form modeled from a piece
of clay, is like a rock thrown into a pond. It upsets repose, it mobilizes space.
Seeing is the perception of action.

- Gilles Deleuze refers to the diagram as a “battle that occurs in the canvas between the painter and his data." Deleuze explains the diagram through the
paintings of Francis Bacon. For Deleuze, the canvas already bears the painting.

What is this act of painting? Bacon defines it as follows: making marks at
random (brushstrokes-lines); cleaning, sweeping, or wiping places or areas
(daubs-color); throwing paint at varied angles and speeds. Now this act (or acts)
presupposes that there are already figurative data on the canvas (and also within
the painters head) that are more or less virtual or more or less actual. These data
will be precisely demarcated, cleaned, swept, and wiped, or covered over, by the
act of painting. For example, we lengthen a mouth, we make it go from one side
of the head to the other; we clean part of a head with a brush, a scrubbing brush,
a sweeping brush, or a rag. This is what Bacon calls a Diagram...



* Alot of projects and exercises were generated through this nine grid system like
what we are to do now~ to design 4 houses based on this nine grid system~ *


http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/english/5info/topics/skcompe2008/index.html


The above website directs you to the design brief of our assignment~ It is also the brief to a competition which its deadline is dated on the 18th of November 2008!!