Karen Ramos
ARCH 611 Dance Combinations
This studio investigated the communication between architecture and the allied arts through exploratory exercises. Architecture is a discipline that forms spatial conditions and choreographs human movement. Its originates through creative processes — drawing, writing, modeling, and speculation. The course collaborated with dancers, studying the translation of movement, light, and form as an act of reading through drawing. Students explored the gap between the real and the imagined, the form/function dualism, and the relational networks that define the context of our projects. Technology and fabrication principles assisted in the expression of form, as the material characteristics of the structure respond to environmental conditions and reconcile the quality of interior spaces.